NASA’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived on the moon’s surface, a striking achievement for Blue Ghost builder Firefly Aerospace and for the US agency’s commercial space program. The chunky ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ...

The Altitude facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., does tactical scale research on next-generation rocket motor and engine components, propellant formulations, and subsystems; and high vacuum ...

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and set course for a lunar flyby on Thursday, marking the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972. The crew of three Americans and one ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 4 lander will deliver two rovers to the moon and carry three instruments for NASA. Credit: Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace for a ...

Starship Flight 13 aborted at T-0 on July 16 as four Raptor 3 engines failed to ignite before liftoff from Starbase, Texas. SpaceX will replace two flagged engines ahead of a relaunch targeting early ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic lunar ...