sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known as "Blue Ghost," is carrying 10 sophisticated ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

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Future missions led by Firefly will be to the moon's far side and will include delivering a satellite that will orbit the region. The Blue Ghost space craft will attempt a lunar landing on Sunday ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander is set to launch no earlier than 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The lander will be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39A.

Firefly was selected based on the payload capacity. “What NASA is doing is they’re contracting for the manifest capacity in the space, as opposed to the lander specifically,” Scholtes told ...