Firefly’s lunar landing is NASA’s second CLPS mission. The first took place last year, when Intuitive Machines—another Texas-based private space company—sent its lander to the Moon in February 2024.

The successful landing of a Cedar Park lunar lander is putting the pressure on efforts to build a workforce capable of reaching for the stars.

Blue Ghost was selected through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which contracts private landers to ...

Firefly Aerospace's lander reached lunar soil early Sunday morning, after a 2.8-million-mile journey lasting 45 days ...

Intuitive Machines Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) said March 3 it hired James J. Frelk as its executive vice president of data services.

Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a ...

Participants in the March 10 SXSW panel include Firefly CEO Jason Kim and Regina Blue, the deputy programmatic manager for ...

Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon on March 2 at 3:34 a.m. EST. The accomplishment ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander successfully entered lunar orbit on Monday (March 3), keeping it on track for a ...

A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ...

The feat makes Firefly Aerospace the first private space firm to achieve a fully successful moon landing after another Texas ...