Firefly Aerospace has shared an awesome video clip captured by its Blue Ghost spacecraft as it heads to the moon.
Firefly Aerospace has confirmed that all is well with its lunar-bound Blue Ghost spacecraft, which launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 15.
Recommended Videos “The team confirmed Blue Ghost’s first trajectory correction maneuver was performed with such accuracy we are skipping the next one,” Texas-based Firefly said in a post on X on Tuesday. “With Earth in the rearview mirror, we’re on cruise control until we reach the moon’s orbit and perform a Lunar Orbit Insertion in just a couple days. So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
Blue Ghost Mission 1, also known as “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, and is supporting the space agency’s Artemis campaign to establish a long-term human presence on the surface of our nearest neighbor.
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