Lunar Archives

SpaceX and FAA launch probe into second straight Starship failure

SpaceX celebrated the success of its Starship Super Heavy booster on Friday morning while engineers worked to determine why its Starship upper stage spacecraft lost several engines before it spun out of control and broke up.

Intuitive Machines’ second spacecraft lands on Moon

A view sent back from the Athena spacecraft as it approached the Moon's surface.

Intuitive Machines’ second mission to the Moon is a partial success, as the Athena spacecraft is communicating from the lunar surface.

India P.M. calls safe landing of lunar probe ‘Dawn of a New Era’

Space workers celebrate lunar landing of the India's Chandrayaan-3 probe, making it the 4th nation to safely land a spacecraft on the Moon.

Space workers in India celebrated the landing of their Chandrayaan-3 probe, making it the fourth nation to safely land a spacecraft on the Moon, and had their efforts lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India is on the Moon,” Modi boomed in a broadcast to India’s 1.4 billion residents.