Before Neil Armstrong’s legendary first steps on the Moon in 1969, Nasa had to ensure that the lunar surface was well-mapped ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...
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 ...
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 originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...
Blue Ghost, however, survived landing and completed “100 percent of its mission objectives,” per Firefly. That makes the ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost touched down on the Moon, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to stick its lunar landing.
"Just breathtaking views of a calm, glass-like ocean off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida," commented Sandra Jones, a NASA ...
If you design a new tool for use on Earth, it is easy to test and practice using that tool in its intended environment. But ...