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#1 2025-02-02 07:45:57
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander by Firefly from Texas
A relative sent the link below:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/science/ … id=ios_app
The report includes a number of images and a video, along with text.
The report is followed by a number of comments, some of which seems worth reading.
The flight is intended to attempt a landing.
This topic is available for NewMars members who might run across links to add to the record of this flight.
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#2 2025-02-02 07:46:34
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Re: Blue Ghost Lunar Lander by Firefly from Texas
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#3 2025-02-24 18:31:56
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Re: Blue Ghost Lunar Lander by Firefly from Texas
Blue Ghost is a few days from a landing attempt on March 2nd.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/science/ … id=ios_app
The article at the link above includes images taken by Blue Ghost, and a short video of the Moon as the space craft rotates.
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#4 2025-03-02 07:56:02
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Re: Blue Ghost Lunar Lander by Firefly from Texas
Apparently Blue Ghost landed...
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASA
Story by MARCIA DUNN
• 5h • 4 min read
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … ticle_link
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome in an impact basin on the moon’s northeastern edge of the near side.
Confirmation of successful touchdown came from the company's Mission Control outside Austin, Texas, following the action some 225,000 miles (360,000 kilometers) away.
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#5 2025-03-02 11:47:49
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Re: Blue Ghost Lunar Lander by Firefly from Texas
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/firef … 7a05&ei=12 Image Quote:
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A dramatic photo beamed back from a camera on the Blue Ghost lander shows the spacecraft's shadow on the moon shortly after touchdown with Earth suspended in space above the lunar horizon. / Credit: FIrefly Aerospace
That is a nice thing to see.
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