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Blue Ghost on the Moon

By |2025-03-03T08:09:07-05:00March 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day There's a new lander on the Moon. Yesterday Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost executed the first-ever successful commercial lunar landing. During its planned 60-day mission, Blue Ghost will deploy several NASA-commissioned scientific instruments, including PlanetVac which captures lunar dust after creating a small whirlwind of gas. Blue Ghost will also host [...]

Blue Ghost to the Moon

By |2025-03-01T08:09:35-05:00March 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged surface of the Moon lies below the Blue Ghost lander in this space age video frame. The view of the lunar far side was captured by the Firefly Aerospace lunar lander on February 24, following a maneuver to circularize its orbit about [...]

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