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Watch Blue Ghost Land On The Moon in HD

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A few days ago, on March 2, the first lunar lander operated by a private company landed successfully on the Moon. The video of the landing is really something — I wonder if I will ever get accustomed to or tired of watching footage of spacecraft landing on other bodies in our solar system? The answer is a resounding NO so far…this is cool as hell. You can read more about Firefly’s Blue Ghost on Wikipedia. The mission delivered 10 science and tec…

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Watch Blue Ghost Land On The Moon in HD

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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander: Payload Deployments

Firefly Aerospace reports that their Blue Ghost Moon lander is engaged in surface operations of select NASA payloads. Those operations include the deployment of the Lunar PlanetVac and sampling lunar regolith, deploying the Electrodynamic Dust Shield and demonstrating dust mitigation, capturing images from the Stereo CAmera for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies (SCALPSS). Rocket plume SCALPSS […]

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