This story has been updated to add video. A Cedar Park-based aerospace company designed the lunar lander that successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday, with the aim of ...

Both landers are designed to stay on the surface of the moon and transmit data back to scientists on Earth. The Firefly-led mission, termed Ghost Riders in the Sky, will take a planned 45 days to ...

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027 ... Who's doing it? NASA and Firefly Aerospace, a Cedar Park, Texas, company that manufactures ...

NASA is seeking a new owner for its Moon rover after canceling plans to send its robotic mission to the lunar surface in search of ice.

Firefly is making its first attempt to put a vehicle on the moon, but this mission marks a second try for Ispace, after its first lander crashed and blasted a divot in the lunar surface in 2023.

NASA’s decision on the Viper mission’s future is planned for this summer. Water ice at the Moon is an envisioned in situ lunar resource for astronaut life support, production of liquid ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

2025 /PRNewswire/ -- To advance plans of securing a public/private partnership and land and operate NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission on the Moon in ...