Safely reaching the surface of Earth's satellite is hard. 2025 has brought both successes and shortfalls for companies and ...

It will be the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years ... matching the patterns of craters with stored maps and measuring its altitude by bouncing laser beams off the surface.

The Apollo moon landings from 1969 to 1972 became a paradigm ... matching the patterns of craters with stored maps and measuring its altitude. During the broadcast covering the landing, an ...

It landed near Malapert A, a small crater about 190 miles from the moon's south pole. Learn more: Details on the landing The lunar ... rover that will record and map images of water ice late ...

The Houston-based company made history last year when its first Nova-C lander touched down on the Moon, marking the first U.S. landing since ... a spacecraft that will map water ice on the Moon.

The landing captured the attention ... and thruster burst to position itself to map the distribution of the different forms of water on the moon's surface. Discoveries made during its two-year ...

The satellite is designed to map the entire sky in 3D and study the ... The company notched its historic first moon landing in February 2024, when its Odysseus lander touched down near a crater ...

Huntsville was on the innovation map long before any rockets flew ... The Apollo program achieved its goal of landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to Earth. Both NASA and the ...

It's taking a fast track to the moon, with a landing on March 6 ... over the next several months before entering lunar orbit to map the distribution of water below. Also catching a ride was ...