NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

On Wednesday this week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. On board: two separate small lunar landers from two separate space companies -- both headed to the moon.

Blue Ghost launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, headed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida toward the Moon. The mission, named “Ghost Riders in the Sky ...

A payload from Webster-based Aegis Aerospace is headed to the moon on the ... launched this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will land on the moon on March 2 after taking several orbits ...

Blue Ghost will land much earlier, in early March, at Mare Crisium, a volcanic plain in the northern latitudes of the Moon. The rocket’s first stage went according to plan, landing back on Earth ...

That was fitting considering onboard this SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket were two ... 45-day journey to the moon. Most of that includes a 30-day orbit around Earth before heading to the moon.

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...