Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit.

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.

The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

Firefly contracted SpaceX to launch the company's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission last month (Jan. 15) on a Falcon 9 rocket, out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since then ...

Blue Ghost's mission, which Firefly calls "Ghost Riders in the Sky," is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. The agency put 10 science experiments aboard the lander ...