Starship will land humans on the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years under NASA’s Artemis missions. Starting with Artemis III, Starship will land crew members at a region near the lunar South Pole to conduct moonwalks and survey the likely area of a future Moon base.

Jan 15, 2025 · Two newly launched private moon landers have long roads ahead of them. Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent Blue Ghost and Resilience — lunar landers built by...

Jan 14, 2025 · SpaceX launches two moon missions in one fell swoop ... spacecraft will follow a path similar to that of the last Hakuto-R mission — taking four to five months to reach the moon. Hakuto-R’s ...

Jan 16, 2025 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers o n separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the...

Jan 15, 2025 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission moon lander and ispace's Resilience lunar lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Here’s what to know about moon missions in 2025: What's the mission? The CLPS mission will take the Blue Ghost lander, which resembles a smaller version of the Apollo lunar descent module,...

Jan 15, 2025 · One of those missions, developed by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, aims to put a lander dubbed Blue Ghost down in a region of the moon known as Mare Crisium — a 340-mile-wide basin...

Jan 15, 2025 · The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions.

Jan 15, 2025 · 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...

Feb 7, 2024 · As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, SpaceX is targeting no earlier than 1:05 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 15, for a Falcon 9 launch of Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander to the Moon’s surface.