"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.
The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services moon exploration program began on Jan. 15, with the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost. It continued with the launch of the Intuitive Machines ...
A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth. The ...
Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...
As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.
Both Intuitive Machines and Firefly flew their lunar landers under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program, which aims to spur the business sector to pursue lunar exploration.
which is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The sequence starts around 91 feet (28 meters) above the lunar surface, with lunar dust beginning to kick up when the ...
As part of the expedition, Blue Ghost carried out 10 experiments for NASA under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Related: 'Stranded' Astronauts Spent 9 Months in Space.
The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services moon exploration program began on Jan. 15, with the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost. It continued with the launch of the Intuitive Machines ...