If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module ... an old frying pan as a concrete mold to create the lander’s “feet”. Later, a little paint makes the ...
The company's second lunar lander, Athena, will carry a small rover and other payloads when its launched, which is ...
The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on ... and caught foot in the surface, and the lander has tipped like this,” Altemus said, using a small model of the lander to demonstrate the suspected ...
located on the Blue Ghost lander, to reflect very short laser pulses from Earth-based lunar laser ranging observatories, which could greatly improve on Apollo-era results with sub-millimeter ...
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Dubbed Blue ...
The lunar lander called Odysseus or IM-1 ... most recently in 1972 with the Apollo 17 mission. But the U.S. government hasn’t even tried for a soft landing — with or without astronauts ...
Kim, the company’s CEO, said he is also excited about the possibility of sharing images and footage the Blue Ghost lander may capture. “There’s a phenomenon called the lunar horizon glow that only the ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...
The company's Blue Ghost lunar lander is sharing a payload bay with another mission ... This experiment builds on one first performed on the Apollo missions, but with much higher accuracy. "Some of ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander from private US firm Firefly Aerospace and the Resilience spacecraft from Japanese company iSpace are set to take off in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Resilience will also ...
While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of space launches.
It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar ... to Apollo, aims to get ...