RAC is Aegis’ first payload to the moon’s surface, and it will operate for 14 days. For Stephanie Murphy, who took over the ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has taken a significant leap toward the Moon, with its successful second engine burn ...

under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. LuGRE builds upon previous missions in the Space Service Volume, including experiments by AMSAT-OSCAR 40, GOES-R series satellites and ...

Deployment of the NGLR payload is just the first step, Harris noted. A second NGLR retroreflector, called the Artemis Lunar Laser Retroreflector (ALLR), is currently a candidate payload for flight ...

This is all part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS, an effort aimed at utilizing private company landers to carry science payloads to the moon. The science and technology ...

PlanetVac will collect samples of lunar regolith (soil) from the surface using a pneumatic technique (powered by compressed gas) and its delivery system will transfer the samples to other instruments ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of two lunar landers atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. NASA's uncrewed payload mission to the moon ...

This is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. It will take 45 days for Firefly's Blue Ghost on its cruise to ...

Firefly was selected based on the payload capacity. “What NASA is doing is they’re contracting for the manifest capacity in the space, as opposed to the lander specifically,” Scholtes told FLORIDA ...