hitching a ride as a secondary payload on a rocket launch that was going roughly in the right direction to get its Resilience lander to the moon. That turned out to be Blue Ghost’s trip.

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.

Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Launch site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Landing site: Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) region in the north of the moon.

will head to the moon using the same SpaceX rocket. The Firefly mission, which is carrying cargo paid for by NASA, will be the first trip of its Blue Ghost lander. The lunar trip by Ispace will be ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

NASA / Frank Michaux A SpaceX rocket carrying two commercial lunar landers took off toward space early Wednesday morning. This carpool to the moon is transporting Blue Ghost, a lander built by ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...

Starting its 45-day trip to the Moon, the business said it uses Rocket Lab's MAX Flight and MAX Ground Data Software packages to enable its operations. For the flight, Rocket Lab reported ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...