Blue Ghost spaceship orbiting above Moon captures incredible footage

One and a half months after the launch, the space probe "Blue Ghost" is said to land on the moon. The maneuver is considered difficult – as previous missions have shown.

Close-ups of the far side of the Moon beamed by to Earth by Blue Ghost spacecraft

Firefly Aerospace has released video showing stunning images of the moon captured by its Blue Ghost lunar lander, currently orbiting the Moon. On February 24, the Texas-based company conducted the spacecraft’s third lunar orbit maneuver, placing it in a near-circular low lunar orbit. The footage, filmed about 100 km above the lunar surface, shows the far side of the Moon and Blue Ghost’s thrusters. The spacecraft will attempt a descent on March …

Blue Ghost spacecraft captures marvelous views of the moon

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost shuttle will attempt to make a descent on the lunar surface on 2 March.

Blue Ghost spaceship orbiting above Moon captures incredible footage

It recorded some of the best footage since NASA's Apollo missions.

Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or End in a Nightmare

On the surface, Seiichi Nagihara’s mood seems placid, yet there’s tension beneath the answers the Texas Tech professor offers about the fate of his invention. The device now sits aboard a lander called Blue Ghost, circling the moon, about 244,190 miles from Nagihara’s Lubbock office.Cedar Park–based Firefly Aerospace, which built Blue Ghost, has dubbed this mission “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” It’s a nod to the nature of the mission, carrying ten …

This Private Spacecraft Has Sent Back Stunning Photos Of The Far Side Of The Moon

We might have successfully walked on the moon more than half a century ago, but it seems the small orbiting rock has kept plenty of secrets from us along the way. Now, with several countries and private companies looking to man missions there in the coming years, the excitement is back – and these images sent back from one of those exploratory spacecrafts are pretty cool. Blue Ghost, a ship funded by NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLP…