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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 ...
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander scheduled to launch on January 15th
A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe landed there to collect samples in August 1976. But SpaceX is ...
Firefly’s Lunar Lander Captures Haunting Earth Eclipse From Space
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
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2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
This photo provided by ispace in January 2024 shows the Resilience lunar lander. Credit ... on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan.
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SpaceX Launches Japanese and Texas Lunar Landers to the Moon
The Blue Ghost lunar lander on display ... Since the 1960s, only five countries—the U.S., Soviet Union, China, India, and Japan—have successfully landed on the Moon. NASA is funding ...
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Two private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
Only five countries have successfully placed spacecraft on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet ... the lunar surface, ispace’s 11-pound (5-kilogram) rover will stay near the lander ...