SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers on Wednesday for two separate companies looking to jumpstart business on the Moon. The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the US.

Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent Blue Ghost and Resilience — lunar landers built by Firefly Aerospace and the Tokyo-based company ispace, respectively — into the final frontier from Florida's Space Coast.

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Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor — kicking off what’s expected to be a bustling year of moon missions amid a renewed race to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar surface.

Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, including one here in Texas, SpaceX granted that wish.

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SpaceX later confirmed deployment of the two ... lander and the second attempt for the Resilience lander. Advertisement Tokyo-based ispace is also sending its Tenacious micro rover to the moon ...

SpaceX plans to launch two private moon landers ... Blue Ghost and Resilience landers — built by Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based ispace, respectively — is scheduled to lift off from NASA's ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying ... Sharing a ride inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s cargo bay is a 7.5-foot-tall (2.3-meter-tall) lunar lander from Tokyo-based Ispace. Wednesday’s launch kicked off the company’s second ...

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers ... It's Take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover ...