Moon Landing

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Features

Forget Katy Perry, here’s Bangladesh’s Ruthba Yasmin shooting for the moon

From studying engineering to moon-landing training, Bangladeshi Ruthba’s journey follows suit of Katy Perry’s space mission hype, as she too was part of an all-women crew for Space Nation’s Moon...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander as the primary payload and Japan-based ispace's Resilience lander as a secondary payload, from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, 15 January 2025. REUTERS/Steve Nesius
World+Biz

US firm Firefly makes its first moon landing with uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft

A large screen shows news footage of China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe collecting a sample from the far side of the moon, in Beijing, China June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Science

Carrying lunar rocks, Chinese probe lifts off from far side of moon

The Chang'e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket combination sit atop the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province, China May 3, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Baptista
China

China's Chang'e-6 probe lifts off from far side of moon

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon, in this handout picture released February 23, 2024. Intuitive Machines/Handout via REUTERS
Science

Moon lander Odysseus tipped sideways on lunar surface but 'alive and well'

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit insertion on February 21, 2024, in this handout image released February 22, 2024. Intuitive Machines/Handout via REUTERS
USA

US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft

An illustration of Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) in a possible position on the moon. Photo: JAXA
World+Biz

Japan makes first moon landing with precision space probe

Astrobotic had been targeting a lunar landing on Feb. 23, following a roundabout, fuel-efficient flight to the moon. Photo: Collected
Tech

Fuel leak forces US company to abandon moon landing attempt

Live telecast of soft landing of Vikram module of Chandrayaan 2 on lunar surface, in Bengaluru on September 7, 2019/Hindustan Times
Science

Indian rover confirms sulphur on Moon's south pole

Photo: Reuters
South Asia

Moon rover exits India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft to explore lunar surface

A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, August 17, 2023. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Countries that have successfully soft landed on moon

Photo: Indian Space Research Organisation
South Asia

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India'

A view of the moon as viewed by the Chandrayaan-3 lander during Lunar Orbit Insertion on August 5, 2023 in this screengrab from a video released August 6, 2023. ISRO/Handout via REUTERS
South Asia

India hours away from moon landing