A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has captured first-of-its-kind imagery of a lunar lander’s engine plumes interacting with the Moon’s surface, […]
Tag: Lunar lander
James Gentile: Shaping the Artemis Generation, One Simulation at a Time
James Gentile always wanted to fly. As he prepared for an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy to become a pilot, life threw him […]
Athena Lunar Lander Successfully Lands Near Moon’s South Pole on IM-2 Mission
The private lunar lander Athena, developed by Intuitive Machines, has touched down near the Moon’s south pole, though the exact condition of the spacecraft remains […]
SpaceX Delays Starship Flight 8 Launch After Technical Glitches
The scheduled test flight of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8, which was expected to take off from the company’s Starbase facility in Texas on March 3, […]
NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing
Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The […]
NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire […]
NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire […]
Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. […]
Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off – NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines
The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest […]
