Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander successfully performed a smooth, upright landing, making the Texas-based company the first private contractor to put a spacecraft on the moon without ...

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander, which has been on the moon since the spacecraft’s successful touchdown on March 2, captured images of the sun, Earth and moon lined up at around 4:30 a.m. ET ...

Once astronauts can return to the moon – and uncrewed landers like Blue Ghost and Athena are considered vital in laying that groundwork – they'd then fuel up and prepare to continue onward to ...

The sun has set on the Blue Ghost spacecraft, concluding a successful NASA-sponsored commercial mission. By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed ...

And they succeeded. As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the ...

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Shadow on the Moon's Surface Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace’s historic Blue Ghost mission to the moon has officially ended after the lander made its last ...

The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect landing 10 days ago, since when it has been deploying its payloads onto the lunar surface and collecting science data.

Here’s how it works. There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit around ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander photographed the Earth as it passed in front of the Sun on March 14. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 14, 2025 3:09 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

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 ...