Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.
Specialists fear planned commercial flights could compromise lunar heritage, including Neil Armstrong’s bootprints.
A pair of spacecraft developed by private firms blast off on a single rocket on the risky voyage to the lunar surface.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in ...
The Moon has been added to the World Monuments Fund's list of endangered heritage sites, highlighting the need to protect ...
The World Monuments Fund has included the moon on its 2025 "Watch" list of cultural heritage locations facing significant ...
"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...
The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left ...
The lander is part of a NASA initiative that could eventually lead to future human missions to the moon. For the team who has worked on this project for years, this last step is bittersweet.
Despite several pushbacks and delays, and provided some global catastrophe doesn't happen, NASA will eventually send humans to the Moon once more ... further into the future as well.