Moon Mission

Gerelle Q. Dodson Mar 25, 2025 NASA and the Department of Defense will host a media event on the recovery operations that will bring the Artemis II astronauts and the agency’s Orion spacecraft home at the conclusion of next year’s mission around the Moon. The in-person event will take place…

Artist's illustration of an Artemis astronaut stepping onto the moon. (Image credit: NASA) NASA websites no longer state that the Artemis 3 lunar mission will aim to land the first person of color and the first woman on the moon — a longstanding goal of the Artemis program that the…

Gerelle Q. Dodson Mar 18, 2025 After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions. As part of NASA’s CLPS…

Abbey A. Donaldson Mar 17, 2025 NASA and Firefly Aerospace will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the company’s successful Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon’s surface. Watch the news conference on NASA+. Learn how to…

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost falls silent on the moon after a 2-week missionRead More

Artist’s impression of a future Interlune moon mining mission Interlune A space start-up will launch a moon mining mission in 2027, with the eventual goal of delivering a rare form of helium that is essential for some quantum computers and future nuclear fusion reactors. If successful, it will be the…

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft? (Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab) When the moon falls into Earth's shadow Thursday night into Friday (March 13-14), observers will be treated to views of…

Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, named Athena, is pictured on its side, lying on the Moon’s surface following touchdown on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Image: Intuitive Machines A day after its Nova-C class robotic lander touched down on the surface of the Moon, Intuitive Machines confirmed that its mission is now…

Credit: NASA NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This…

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander in circular orbit around the Moon - Copyright GETTY IMAGES/AFP/File Anna Moneymaker A private company’s second attempt to land on the Moon officially ended Friday after its Athena spaceship came down sideways in a repeat of an off-kilter landing last year. Houston-based Intuitive Machines hoped to…