The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...
USA TODAY reached out to NASA on Friday but ... also toppled onto its side after coming in hot and fast during a moon landing in February of last year. Odysseus' faulty laser altimeter, used ...
About five years ago, the Trump-appointed administrator of NASA, Jim Bridenstine, revealed the name of the program that would ...
Commercial company Intuitive Machines has had some luck getting its lunar landers to the surface of the moon, but hasn’t had any luck keeping them upright. The Houston-based company flying its ...
The accomplishment marked Firefly as the first commercial company to achieve a fully successful soft landing on the Moon. The Blue Ghost ... Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB) played a role in the ...
landed on the moon while still moving sideways. A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side, limiting the mission's scientific return. Intuitive's stock fell 20% in the wake of ...
The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the northeast corner of the moon's Earth-facing side.
After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...