And they succeeded. As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the ...
The lander, called Blue Ghost, launched to orbit on a SpaceX rocket in January, spent some time in Earth’s orbit and had been maneuvering toward the moon ever since. • Firefly has become only ...
Update for 4:30 am ET: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully landed on the moon early Sunday, March 2. Read our full story on the historic landing. The private spaceflight company ...