The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has been orbiting the moon since mid-February and now is in the final stages of its journey to the Mare Crisium, a large basin on near-side of the moon.
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...