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Learn more about the tardigrades aboard the Beresheet spacecraft that crashed on the moon in 2019, and how they could have ...
Intuitive Machines "Odysseus" lunar lander captured amazing views of Earth after separation from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.
Resilience, a lunar lander built and operated by the Japanese company ispace, was part of the Hakuto-R Mission to deploy a "Moonhouse," a tiny colorful art piece, on the moon, while also exploring ...
An entire lunar day is about 27 Earth days, plus 7 hours. The HAKUTO-R Mission 2 took off from Launch Center 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in January of this year, which also took Firefly ...
If all goes well, the lunar lander will touch down near the Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) in the moon’s northern hemisphere. And so far, ispace’s CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada is quite ...
Astrobotic’s first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth’s atmosphere. For decades, governments competed to get to the moon.
NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...
Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...
This isn't the first time iSpace has attempted a lunar landing. In 2023, its lander failed due to software issues, and this latest attempt appears to be much the same, albeit affecting a different ...
China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar exploration plans with a successful pad abort test of its crewed Mengzhou capsule.