A lunar lander launched by a private company made a soft landing on the moon Sunday — the first such landing of its kind and major milestone for privatized space missions. Firefly Aerospace’s ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is ... After a lengthy journey through space, a US company is hours away from attempting a historic lunar touchdown. If successful, its spacecraft ...

Acting NASA administrator Janet Petro said at Firefly's landing event that the moon remains part of America's goal to "dominate" space. On Blue Ghost, two onboard instruments will study the lunar ...

Blue Ghost launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace became the second company to land on the Moon ...

A spaceship on the Moon has pictured its first sunrise. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander - which touched down Sunday - beamed back a jaw-dropping image on Monday ...

Alpha is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a 52-minute window that opens at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT; 6:25 a.m. local California time). Firefly ...

A series of launches is set at Vandenberg Space Force Base, starting Thursday night with the NROL-57 mission from Space ...

Literally, figuratively over the moon': Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on lunar surface Lunar landing comes after 45-day trip through space The landing concludes a more-than 2.8 million-mile journey ...

The Blue Ghost mission cost the space agency about $145 million—$101 million for Firefly's contract plus $44 million for the lander's government-provided science payloads. There are no modern ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has been in space for 44 days, and on Sunday it will attempt to finally execute a soft landing on the Moon. Firefly will be livestreaming the landing attempt on ...