A privately funded space craft has become the second ever to land on the Moon - and it took a stunning selfie with Earth. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander touched down at 8.34am GMT yesterday ...

A privately funded space craft has become the second ever to land on the Moon - and it took a stunning selfie with Earth. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander touched down at 8.34am GMT yesterday ...

Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA The car-sized Blue Ghost launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 science and technology experiments for NASA.

At 3:34 a.m. EST, on March 2, 2025, the first of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar landers successfully reached the surface, setting down in Mare Crisium, near a small 'mountain' called Mons ...

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost's shadow is seen on the moon's surface after touching down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander is seen as bright pixel casting a shadow in the middle of the box in this photo, which was taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 2, 2025.

Separately, Blue Ghost witnessed an eclipse from the lunar surface last week. The event cast Earth’s shadow across the moon, briefly plunging the lander into darkness.

Relive Blue Ghost’s lunar landing as it happened and follow updates on its ongoing mission. An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas ...

Also on board Blue Ghost’s launch rocket was another commercial moon mission, ispace’s Resilience lander, which aims to touch down in April. Around a dozen landers are expected to reach the ...

On March 2, Blue Ghost made its landing at the moon's Mare Crisium within its 100-meter target, where it will begin surface operations over 14 days including subsurface drilling, X-ray imaging and ...

Blue Ghost will unfurl its X-band antenna, which can beam troves of data and video down from the moon. That should be happening right now. NASA and Firefly will verify all 10 science and tech ...

Meanwhile, Blue Ghost is carrying 10 payloads for NASA with specific goals as part of the agency’s Artemis program for establishing a routine human presence on the moon. Among them is an ...