Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is scheduled to touch down in Mare Crisium, a vast lunar plain on the near side of the Moon. Listen to Story The mission carries ten Nasa science and technology payloads ...

By Kenneth Chang A robotic spacecraft from an American startup gently set down on a lava plain on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning. The Blue Ghost lander, built by Firefly Aerospace of ...

Firefly’s 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon’s near side around 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET) Sunday. A parade of lunar landers developed by the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander closed in on the moon Saturday, on course for a nail-biting automated descent to touchdown early Sunday, the first of three private-sector robotic moon ...

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead to land on the moon. Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company operating ...

Blue Ghost is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, aimed at delivering scientific payloads to the Moon's surface. The mission carries ten NASA instruments designed to study ...

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Excitement builds as Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 approaches its Moon landing at Mare Crisium. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is set to touch down on the Moon’s Mare ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, a new lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace, is just a little over a week away from touchdown. As it sidles up to the Moon, the spacecraft has managed to snag ...