Before any experiments can begin, Intuitive Machines must stick the landing — a challenge made harder by the Moon's lack of atmosphere, which rules out parachutes and forces spacecraft to rely ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. No one else has sent ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its ... successful soft landings in the past - the then-Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. No one else has sent ...

Another U.S. company — Firefly Aerospace — earlier this week added its lunar lander to the win list, becoming the first private entity to pull off a fully successful moon landing. Both Texas ...

(AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the U.S. back on ...