The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander clicks a rare lunar eclipse image while on its route to the moon, marking an important milestone in its attempt to support NASA's Artemis moon missions. The ...
After years of delays, NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon commenced in a big way more than two years ago, starting with the unmanned Artemis 1 in November 2022. The legacy is continuing now ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and deployed for a 45-day trip to the moon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (NASA) “I had the urge to say ...
For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...
But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo ...
Artemis is NASA's program to return humans to the moon and eventually Mars, but it will need plenty of robotic missions to support it. The first CLPS mission never made it to the moon. That came ...
The moon’s Mare Crisium, thought to have been molded billions of years ago by volcanic activity, is a vast, haunting landscape. It’s only fitting that NASA is sending a Blue Ghost to explore it.
Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds to space weather. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager ...
hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA. Related: What you can see in the night sky tonight On the nights before and after a new moon, when just a thin crescent ...
The series of test images showed the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP ...
The mission brings 10 science and technology instruments to the moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which allows commercial companies to send certain technology ...