NASA selected landers from (left to right) Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Firefly Aerospace for missions launching in late 2028. Credit: Astrobotic/Intuitive Machines/Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — NASA has selected three companies to fly four ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the spacecraft has been reopened due to delays. NASA's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before humans even step foot on the surface of the moon in the years ahead, a fleet of lunar landers are due to beat them there. Already, three landers manufactured by two different ...

Impulse Space’s lunar transportation system concept uses the company’s Helios tug (left) with a new lunar lander the company will develop. Credit: Impulse Space WASHINGTON — In-space transportation company Impulse Space says it plans to develop a ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) Lunar missions once felt like the domain of history ...

There is a chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that is, in its own way, one of the most extraordinary rooms on Earth. Chamber A is one of the largest thermal vacuum facilities in the world, a vast steel vessel that can recreate the airless ...

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IMAGE: Artist’s illustration of China’s Chang’E 5 moon sample-return spacecraft. CREDIT: CNSA/NASA China is in the middle of an ambitious four-phase lunar exploration program, and the most recently completed step included the landing of Chang’e 5 ...

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The plan calls for turning the test rover, which is currently sitting at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, into a lunar explorer named PROMISE (“Polar Rover for Observation, M