Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for the right time to fling itself to the moon. After four days in transit, Blue Ghost will spend 16 days in lunar orbit collecting more data before descending to Mare Crisium, one of the largest basins on the 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.

What a way to kick off the work week: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory shows. Launch time and day for SpaceX ...

The Falcon 9, which launched at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), was carrying not one but two private lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and iSpace's ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon

NASA launched Blue Ghost with a motive to study the moon’s atmosphere. It is expected to orbit the Earth and moon for 45 days. The Blue Ghost has already started sending data.

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

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The Falcon 9 will lift off from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, ascend along a southeasterly trajectory, and deploy Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX's Starlink 12 ...

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The Space Act Agreement between NASA and Blue Abyss marks the next step in bringing a new astronaut training and space research facility to Brook Park’s west side.