Private companies — Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, Blue Origin, and Firefly Aerospace — are heralding a new era of lunar exploration by developing landers in collaboration with NASA.
2025 marks a significant year with multiple lunar lander missions – but a hit and miss track record.

Blue Ghost sits on lunar surface – marking the the longest commercial operations on the Moon to date.
Image credit: Firefly Aerospace
These Moon missions aim to analyze lunar soil, test new technologies, and search for water ice.
This informative (musical review) of what missions have worked, what hasn’t, and what’s next.
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Hello Leonard,
After yesterday’s Spacex performance, you can add another company to your list.
And, after the damage to the Orion spacecraft in 2022, and cancellation of Gateway, another transportation method is also questionable.
Oh well,
Ron