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Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the ...
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander nails lunar mission
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Blue Ghost lander captured a solar eclipse while on the moon. See the stunning imagery here
While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early Friday, a spacecraft on the moon captured the ...
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Blue Ghost lander captured a solar eclipse while on the moon. See the stunning imagery here
A spacecraft has captured an eclipse while on the moon’s surface only one other time. In 1967, NASA’s Surveyor 3 lander, which had been sent to gather data in preparation for the Apollo ...
Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12h
Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Just four years after the first human traveled to space, a Soviet cosmonaut and later an American astronaut took next steps that would be vital to exploration: They walked in space. A spacewalk, when ...
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East Texas native gets name on the moon as part of Austin-based company's lunar mission
Jason Bates is a Longview High School graduate and Avionics and Integration Specialist at Firefly Aerospace, which recently put a lander on the moon.