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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The solar-powered Blue Ghost went dark on Sunday evening (March 16) after the sun set on its lunar locale, bringing an end to a highly successful two weeks of surface operations on the moon.

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 ...

Blue Ghost is part of a mission called Ghost Riders in the Sky, Firefly's first flight under the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. It carries with it a total of ten science ...