The shielding technology was tested in vacuum chambers, where it was used to remove lunar dust samples brought home by NASA's Apollo missions. The first time EDS was tested in space was on the ...

Aim for the stars, Jaxon Liebeck tells students as he returns to his school in WA a month after directing a landmark space ...

Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA's Langley Research ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

a lava plain inside an ancient 345-mile-wide impact crater in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon. Blue Ghost became the first completely successful landing by a commercial company ...

It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 NASA science and delivery payloads to the Mare Crisium basin, which is a lava-flooded region on the near side of the ...

“After a flawless moon landing, the Firefly team immediately ... Athena that attempted to land just days after Firefly’s successful touchdown. One big difference, though, was Firefly’s ...

Shares of Intuitive Machines slumped to close 22% lower on Friday after the U.S. space exploration company confirmed that its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

becoming the first commercial spacecraft to have a fully successful landing on the moon. And NASA cameras affixed to the bottom of the robotic craft filmed footage of the descent and dusty touchdown.

Blue Ghost, however, survived landing and completed “100 percent of its mission objectives,” per Firefly. That makes the mission—which deployed 10 NASA payloads, beamed more than 119 gigabytes of data ...

On Sunday, the rover successfully landed on the moon! Firefly is now the first private company to achieve a fully-successful lunar landing. But, it couldn't have happened without Kevin Lynaugh and ...