Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway through its journey to the Moon. The mission, named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” will spend around 16 days in lunar orbit before attempting a soft touchdown on the lunar surface.
Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander reached lunar orbit on Thursday (Feb. 13) and snapped some photos to commemorate the milestone.
The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Is Now Orbiting the Moon, Taking Dazzling Photographs
Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest planetary rovers ever designed, and it wouldn't look out of place in an RC car toy shop. Tenacious measures 10 inches tall and weighs just 5 pounds.
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.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander snaps its 1st photos of the moon (images)
On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows the natural satellite all alone, a small grayish dot in an empty black sea; the other is a selfie, showing the moon glowing above some of Blue Ghost's golden hardware.
Lunar-bound Blue Ghost captures stunning video of Earth
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft has captured a stunning video clip of Earth ahead of its arrival on the lunar surface.
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