The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

NASA on Tuesday announced that Firefly won a $176.7 million task order for the delivery of two rovers and three scientific ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

"Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface with 10 NASA payloads and a plaque with every Firefly employee's name," Jason Kim, Firefly CEO, said in a statement.

The mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched Wednesday from NASA' s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. ET. Blue Ghost separated from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 2:17 a.m. ET and ...

But Blue Ghost and its suite of scientific instruments were intended to land elsewhere, said Dr. Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

The mission, dubbed Blue Ghost Mission 4, will use Firefly's Elytra Dark orbital vehicle and Blue Ghost lunar lander to ...

Blue Ghost has been orbiting Earth since January 15, when the lander hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar spacecraft is expected to leave Earth’s orbit in about one week, embarking on ...

Blue Ghost will spend 14 days on the surface, plus five hours into the lunar night, providing power and communications to support payload operations. “That’s when we start,” Coogan said.

The Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon's surface at 3:34 a.m. ET on Sunday, March 2, coming in for a soft landing and touching down safely and upright with its payload of science ...

Once launched, the Blue Ghost lander will spend 45 days in space traveling to the moon. It will attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface in early March in the Mare Crisium region.

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