The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic ...
Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.
Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a ...
A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.
More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly different view. Captured by the Blue Ghost lander in 2025, this photograph ...
After Blue Ghost lands on the moon, the instruments will operate for ... Over time, the basin flooded with basaltic lava, a dark lava commonly found on Earth. Ray Allensworth, Firefly’s program ...
Once astronauts can return to the moon – and uncrewed landers like Blue Ghost and Athena are considered ... eruptions and flooded with basaltic lava more than 3 billion years ago.