NASA, Japanese Commercial Lunar Landers Head For The Moon

blue ghost 1 and resilience lunar landers launching

The launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center occurred at 1:11 a.m. EST., with successful Falcon 9 second-stage deployments.

Credit: Frank Michaux/NASA
HOUSTON—Two pioneering commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan's ispace's Resilience, successfully lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center early Jan. 15, each with multiple science and technology payloads intended to support...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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