Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...

With the Blue Ghost lunar mission coming to an end this week, the spacecraft has gifted scientists and the public with an incredible send-off. The moon lander captured the first ever HD imagery of ...

Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly is now the second company to do it. The Blue Ghost mission ... and the world, as we pave the way for a lasting lunar presence ...

Given a low sun angle and the orientation of the lander's solar cells, the spacecraft's battery quickly drained, bringing the mission ... Sunday in a different region of the moon with much more ...

Of the four CLPS missions attempted so far, only one lander managed an upright touchdown, two landed sideways, and one failed to reach the Moon altogether.

The work was supposed to pave the way for NASA's Artemis III in 2027, the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 ... In an interview at Mobile World Congress 2025, John Dow told WIRED ...

It is unclear how that might impact the mission ... for other ways to get VIPER to the moon, while Astrobotic has secured a contract to deliver a different rover, a commercial design by Venturi ...