60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
Old NASA mission reveals an unlikely world harbors an ocean
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
Blue Ghost Lowers Orbit and Snaps Rare Views of the Moon’s Far Side
The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...
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Flying Lunar Lander Sees Moon's South Pole, Earth 'in the Rearview Mirror'
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost captured some stunning sights on its way to the Moon's Mare Crisium basin.
Meet Trailblazer: A Spunky NASA Probe on a Mission to Map the Moon’s Water
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach lunar orbit in a release published this week. Lunar Trailblazer will separate ...
Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
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Lunar Trailblazer: NASA’s Clever Mission That Will Map the Moon’s Water—Without Wasting Fuel
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission, set to launch on February 26, 2025, is charting a bold new course to explore the Moon in ...
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Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)
Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of ...