Within about an hour, Blue Ghost separated from the Falcon 9 rocket on an elliptical Earth orbit before establishing communications with Firefly’s mission operations center in Cedar Park, Texas. By ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A lunar lander that was designed in Central Texas has completed the first step of its mission to the moon. Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace says that "Blue Ghost" has ...

via Wikimedia Commons Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace marked a significant achievement in space exploration, as Cedar Park's own Blue Ghost Lunar Lander was successfully launched into orbit ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The 6-foot-6-inches-tall (2-meter-tall) lander will attempt a touchdown in early ...

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