Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Nears Lunar Touchdown With 10 Game-Changing NASA Instruments
NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith ...
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Private spacecraft gets dramatic view of Earth eclipsing moon
Private space company Firefly is guiding its Blue Ghost lander through space to attempt its first moon landing March 2, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace A robotic spacecraft has beamed home crisp ...
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How did walking on the Moon affect the Apollo astronauts?
After piloting the lunar module Eagle down to the first-ever Moon landing, Armstrong emerged to become the first human to ever set foot upon the Moon. A short while later, Aldrin joined him on the ...
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Argonaut: ESA awards contract for the construction of a lunar landing vehicle
It will take the spacecraft to the moon and land there. The Cargo Platform Element (CPE) is located above it. It serves as the interface between the landing module and the payload, which is the ...
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Pittsburgh's Astrobotic will try again for a moon landing
That sent the craft in a spiral away from the sun, which it needed for power.Astrobotic was forced to abandon the attempted moon landing, but all was not lost."We thought we had lost the mission ...
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of the near side of the Moon. After touchdown, Blue Ghost will operate for ...
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Blue Ghost lunar lander is documenting its journey to the moon. The views are breathtaking
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images ...
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Moon selected as historical preservation site to protect lunar heritage
such as the Apollo 11 lunar landing site within the Sea of Tranquility, home of the first off-Earth footprints by humans planted there in 1969. Listed are cultural heritage sites that face major ...
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SpaceX launches two lunar landers toward moon for U.S., Japanese companies
Last year, the company achieved the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half-century, landing sideways near the south pole but still managing to operate.
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Congress Alarmed at Elon Musk's Plan to Cancel NASA Moon Landing
Congress is none too pleased after SpaceX CEO and unelected official Elon Musk declared that the "Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." Mark Kelly ...
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Fake it or make it? The moon landing gets a Hollywood twist
it is "Fly Me To The Moon," Apple TV's fantastic film about the moon landing. Fly Me To The Moon’s a great bing-escape flick. Picture Supplied There’s a lot to stream this month, and it’s ...