After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...

Recently, some of the players in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program met with the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, part of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds we bring you a special panel discussion on the future of commercial lunar exploration ...

Other Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions are scheduled for the next few years. Resilience, the Japanese lander that caught a ride on the Blue Ghost launch, is due to land on the moon no ...

The Houston-based company flying its second mission under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program made history in 2024 becoming the first commercial company to manage a soft landing on ...

Blue Ghost and Athena flew as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, with Blue Ghost delivering the best success to date with its March landing. The Athena lander suffered a ...

The Astrobotic mission, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, is scheduled for delivery at the end of 2025. (Photo: Business Wire) ...

The Intuitive Machines lunar lander that will deliver NASA science and technology to the moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign is ...

The mission occurred as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, wherein the space agency contracts with private companies to send scientific instruments and other technology ...

Texas company pulls off first fully successful commercial moon landing 02:24. Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early ...

The space-equipment manufacturer said Tuesday the joint venture will pursue missions for the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which awards indefinite delivery, indefinite ...

A Commercial Lunar Payload Services 2.0 would continue and expand the program that has NASA helping to finance commercial moon landings. Steve Altemus, president and CEO of Intuitive Machines, ...