A Texas-built lander named Blue Ghost marks another test of NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative ...

Through the agency's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, commercial provider Firefly's Blue Ghost lander will head ... will probe the interior of the moon to depths of up to ...

NGLR will also collect data relevant to the moon's interior and theories ... to help understand how a larger lander might affect the lunar surface. "[Apollo 12] landed about 150 meters (500 ...

Most of the Apollo missions landed in the region of ... The LMS instrument — manifested on the Blue Ghost lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace and targeted to launch on January 15 ...

Firefly Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander launches tomorrow ... It wasn’t until 2023 – building on Apollo-era data and more detailed studies made in 2011-2012 by NASA’s automated GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and ...

The company's Blue Ghost lunar lander is sharing a payload bay with another mission ... This experiment builds on one first performed on the Apollo missions, but with much higher accuracy. "Some of ...

Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander soars ... various aspects of the lunar interior and address ...

Before Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind," NASA staged a series of missions that paved the way for his team's ...