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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later.

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Blue Ghost is Firefly's first-ever moon lander. It launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which also carried a second private lunar lander — Resilience, which was built by the ...

The Blue Ghost mission was part of a $145 million NASA contract. Unlike the billions that were previously spent by the US to reach the moon in 1969, Firefly CEO Jason Kim touted his company’s ...

Blue Ghost will then take another 16 days to lower its lunar orbit and prepare for landing. LEXI will be fired up for its mission once the dust from Blue Ghost's landing settles.

Blue Ghost has captured its first images of the moon from lunar orbit as the spacecraft’s landing attempt on the surface approaches. See the spectacular views here.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

In the early hours of March 2, Blue Ghost fired its engine to drop it out of orbit, falling toward the moon. Just over an hour later, it was on the surface in Mare Crisium, a lava plain inside an ...

Blue Ghost will then spend 16 days in lunar orbit, after which it will attempt to land within Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises"), a large basin on the moon's near side.