One of the lunar landers is from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which is flying 10 experiments to the moon for NASA.
The expeditions are the latest in the commercial sector’s lunar contest after India in August 2023 became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole.
Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...
Blue Ghost and Resilience are now making their way through space to deploy research payloads onto the lunar surface.
The launch comes as NASA aims to put a human on the moon again before the end of the decade - something last achieved in 1972 ...
Late on March 13 and on into the early hours of March 14 the moon will turn a spooky red color in the skies above the U.S.