SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.
This photo provided by ispace in January 2024 shows the Resilience lunar lander. Credit ... on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan.
One of the lunar landers is from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which is flying 10 experiments to the moon for NASA.
Only five countries have successfully placed spacecraft on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union ... lunar surface, ispace’s 11-pound (5-kilogram) rover will stay near the lander ...