Two lunar landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines, both based in Texas, were on the moon in March ...

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for ...

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket will return to flight today (March 1) after a 10-month-long grounding, and you can watch the ...

Firefly Aerospace is targeting March 1 for the return of its Alpha rocket on the “Stairway to Seven” test mission after a 10-month pause, following two 2025 mishaps and ahead of its planned Block II ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

In 1966, three years before the first humans walked on the Moon, the Soviet Union landed a small, spherical probe, dubbed Luna 9, on the lunar surface. It was a historic moment, with the spacecraft ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both ...

Luna 9's landing was a pivotal moment in history. Airwolfhound via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 On February 3, 1966, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 showed the world it was possible to land on ...

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Blue Origin announced on Jan. 30, 2026, that it will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years. The company, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is instead redirecting resources to lunar ...

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