Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III ...

Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander will carry astronauts on the Artemis 5 mission, one year after an uncrewed test mission. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — NASA has selected Blue Origin to develop ...

NASA engineers are recreating the challenging lighting conditions of the Moon’s South Pole to prepare astronauts for the ...

Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander and NASA's planned Artemis missions are all part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which is focused on exploring the moon's surface.

SpaceX was awarded the first lunar lander contract — worth $2.9 billion — in April 2021, setting up the company to develop a version of its forthcoming Starship spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis ...

Then the lander itself will leave our planet, meet up with the tanks and refuel, and then head on to lunar orbit. That's probably how subsequent Artemis missions will go as well, at least until ...

Blue Origin — which had partnered with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper — and Dynetics had also been bidding on the contract.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, ... No one else has sent astronauts to the moon, the overriding goal of NASA’s Artemis program.

Blue Ghost shared its Falcon 9 with yet another moon lander, this one built by the Japanese company ispace. It is on a longer ...

One of its payloads will be, however. The OMOTENASHI lunar lander, a CubeSat built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the University of Tokyo, will be the only one of the Artemis 1 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead to land on the moon. Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company ...