Texas-based Firefly's lunar lander among 2 headed to moon after being launched by SpaceX
Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, including one here in Texas, SpaceX granted that wish.
Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace successfully gets lunar lander into space
The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander soared out of the Florida coastline and into space, shining as bright as a Central Texas firefly in the summertime. "It's an incredible privilege, and it's hard to fully understand the extent of that impact," said Kevin Scholtes, the future systems architect at Firefly Aerospace.
Firefly Aerospace's, NASA successfully launch Blue Ghost lunar lander to moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later. The lunar lander — part of a mission known as Blue Ghost Mission 1 or Ghost Riders in the Sky — will spend 45 days in orbit and 14 days on the surface of the moon.
Cedar Park-based Firefly set to launch lunar lander early Wednesday morning
CEDAR PARK, Texas — A Central Texas aerospace company is making final preparations before blasting off to the stars. Early Wednesday morning, the lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace is set to launch from Florida and head to the moon.
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander headed to space
A company out of Cedar Park launched a spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 on Wednesday.
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