A Central Texas-based effort to reach the moon is now underway. "Blue Ghost Mission One" launched just after midnight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lunar lander was designed and built ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center carrying two lunar landers. Among them, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, which is on a ...

Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ...

The company employs around 500 people from the Austin area. Some work at the Cedar Park facility. Others at a facility in Briggs, Texas where the company builds and tests its own rockets.