'Goodnight friends': Blue Ghost lander signs off after historic moon mission
Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...
See the Blue Ghost spacecraft drilling into the moon’s surface
The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...
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First ever landing of a commercial craft on the moon
A third lander from the Japanese company ispace is still three months from landing. It shared a rocket ride with Blue Ghost from Cape Canaveral on ... private companies operate on a limited budget ...
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander nails lunar mission
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Here’s the secret to how Firefly was able to nail its first lunar landing
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
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Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse From The Lunar Surface
After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...
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'Y'all stuck the landing': Blue Ghost lander touches down on the moon.
A graphic on Firefly’s live feed showed Blue Ghost’s orientation, altitude and airspeed. Green circles representing the craft’s landing legs turned blue as they touched the surface.
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Texas company pulls off first fully successful commercial landing on the moon
The jets pulsed as needed to control velocity and orientation before slowing the craft to just 2.2 ... surface contact sensors on Blue Ghost's shock-absorbing landing legs indicated they were ...