Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" prepares to land on the moon
No American spacecraft has successfully landed intact and upright on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, but one private space ...
Photos from space show the Texas company Firefly Aerospace preparing to land on the moon for the first time
Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is snapping stunning photos on its way to a lunar landing attempt. They show a new era of moon ...
'Cautious optimism' | Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace prepares for Blue Ghost moon landing
Blue Ghost is delivering a fleet of NASA instruments to study the moon's environment ahead of human exploration.
Historic lunar landing by Austin-area based Firefly Aerospace is this weekend
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost One, built in Cedar Park, TX, is set to be the first lunar lander built in the area to land on ...
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Private Blue Ghost lander sees far side of the moon in breathtaking detail ahead of lunar landing (video)
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander has beamed home stunning views of the moon from an altitude of just 62 miles (100 ...
‘Quite frankly terrifying’: how Firefly’s Blue Ghost engineers are preparing to land on the moon
Like throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye on a moving target in the next city over: that’s what it’s like trying to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Spacecraft beams back stunning moon video before ambitious landing
The 6.6-foot-tall lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of ...
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Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or End in a Nightmare
This geophysicist will be watching anxiously as his groundbreaking experiment careens toward the lunar surface aboard Firefly ...
Lunar lander captures stunning views of moon ahead of descent: See images taken by Blue Ghost
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead ...
The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend
Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...
Why 3 private space missions are on their way to the moon right now
The companies Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace, and ispace are all preparing to land on the moon. A new era of lunar ...