Congress is none too pleased after SpaceX CEO and unelected official Elon Musk declared that the "Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." Mark Kelly ...

Apollo flags' condition questioned after decades on the moon Flags on the moon likely degraded from sunlight and meteor impacts Apollo flags remain a powerful symbol despite physical decay ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from ... The landing by Intuitive Machines marked the first successful soft landing on the Moon by a US spacecraft since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands beside an American flag placed on the moon during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. He is photographed by the mission's commander, Neil A. Armstrong, 1969. Photo: Getty ...

The company is targeting a lunar landing on Sunday ... Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We learned many lessons during the Apollo Era, which informed the ...

This NASA file image, dated July 20, 1969, shows one of the first footprints of Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on the moon Credit: Reuters The moon is effectively ungoverned and not ...

New Delhi: Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched two private lunar landers from the US and Japan to space. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lifted off aboard a ...

NASA’s newest mission to the moon successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is bringing the Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

with the aim of landing on the moon in March. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before ...

The Flight of the Blue Ghost The Firefly lander kicks off the company’s Blue Ghost series of missions, designed to deliver payload services to the surface of the moon. This inaugural Blue Ghost ...

Blue Ghost and Resilience are now making their way through space to deploy research payloads onto the lunar surface. Blue Ghost and Resilience are now making their way through space to deploy ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space agency's Apollo program came to an end more than 50 years ago.