Firefly - Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Landed - Rendering
Mission Details
Mission Name: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Mission Type: Lunar Mission
Customer: NASA
Spacecraft: Blue Ghost lunar lander
Launch Date: January 15, 2025
Landing Date: March 2, 2025
Landing Time: 2:34 a.m. CST
Landing Site: Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille
Mission Updates
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit before softly touching down on the Moon on March 2. Firefly is now the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing! As Blue Ghost performs 14 days of surface operations, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way.
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Firefly - Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Landed - Rendering
Mission Details
Mission Name: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Mission Type: Lunar Mission
Customer: NASA
Spacecraft: Blue Ghost lunar lander
Launch Date: January 15, 2025
Landing Date: March 2, 2025
Landing Time: 2:34 a.m. CST
Landing Site: Mare Crisium near Mons Latreille
Mission Updates
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit before softly touching down on the Moon on March 2. Firefly is now the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing! As Blue Ghost performs 14 days of surface operations, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way.
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Mission Summary
Blue Ghost Mission 1 will deliver 10 science and technology instruments to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Upon launching on January 15, Blue Ghost is spending approximately 45 days traveling to the Moon, allowing ample time to conduct health checks on each subsystem and begin payload science. Blue Ghost is set to land in Mare Crisium on March 2 and operate payloads for a complete lunar day (about 14 Earth days). On March 14, Firefly expects to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the Moon’s horizon. Blue Ghost will then capture the lunar sunset on March 16, providing data on how lunar dust levitates due to solar influences and creates a lunar horizon glow first documented by Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17. Following sunset, Blue Ghost will operate several hours into the lunar night.
Of course none of this happened, and the people involved with it are just a part of the Grand Conspiracy.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:07 pm
by Meat Head
Interesting how private industry can out pace NASA by a factor of about 10x.
Hopefully DOGE will also address them in the quest for efficiency.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:08 pm
by 88BuckeyeGrad
Nice job, Firefly.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 4:12 pm
by HighPlainsGrifter
Nicely done, Firefly. "Like a leaf on the wind."
I'm a fan of all scientific expeditions to the moon.
Less excited about delivering figurines and sculptures like that Odysseus lander from a couple years ago.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:11 pm
by HighHard1
Anyone other than myself read Sex On the Moon:
Description. From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
I can't remember the precise gist (jizz?) of what this guy and GF did-whether they put the rocks under their bed or in bed with them when they fucked-thus the title of the book.
Since reading the book-it was a piss poor read IMO-that's where I get back with anything related to space flight, the moon, Space Force, etc. I hope those two poor bastards that we may of may never get back from the space station are banging their brains out.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:36 pm
by bungle clone
yeah I read that. it's in the genre of true crime and has a depressing feel after finishing, but it is an interesting story
Roux, you can protest all you want but the Moon is just a papier-mache decoration hung in the sky
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:44 pm
by HighPlainsGrifter
bungle clone wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:36 pm
yeah I read that. it's in the genre of true crime and has a depressing feel after finishing, but it is an interesting story
Roux, you can protest all you want but the Moon is just a papier-mache decoration hung in the sky
bungle clone wrote: ↑Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:36 pm
yeah I read that. it's in the genre of true crime and has a depressing feel after finishing, but it is an interesting story
Roux, you can protest all you want but the Moon is just a papier-mache decoration hung in the sky
I would really like to beat off on the moon. It would be very fascinating to see how a hot nut reacts when it is blown from the surface of the moon.
Somehow we always get here.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:29 am
by HighPlainsGrifter
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life spread throughout the universe from other planets. The word comes from the Greek words pan meaning "all" and sperma meaning, "seed."
Can you imagine Slap's ejaculate seedling life on Titan or some shit and a billion years later a humanoid race is worshipping him as their god?
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:44 pm
by HighHard1
HighPlainsGrifter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:29 amPanspermia is the hypothesis that life spread throughout the universe from other planets. The word comes from the Greek words pan meaning "all" and sperma meaning, "seed."
Can you imagine Slap's ejaculate seedling life on Titan or some shit and a billion years later a humanoid race is worshipping him as their god?
Why not? Millions of people on this planet worshipping a pedophile, slaughtering non-believers and fucking goats in his 'name.'
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:48 pm
by bungle clone
HighPlainsGrifter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:29 amCan you imagine Slap's ejaculate seedling life on Titan or some shit and a billion years later a humanoid race is worshipping him as their god?
he and his partner Dick are short some other personnel
HighHard1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:44 pmWhy not? Millions of people on this planet worshipping a pedophile, slaughtering non-believers and fucking goats in his 'name.'
who's 'name'?
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 9:56 pm
by Mikey
Thought I'd save Sam some work here.
USA TODAY
Updated 1:49 pm EST Mar. 4, 2025
WASHINGTON ‒ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's ready to work with President Donald Trump to negotiate a peace deal with Russia ‒ effectively ending a standoff between the leaders that exploded Monday evening when the U.S. said it would stop supplying the country with weapons.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:07 am
by HighPlainsGrifter
Mikey wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 9:56 pm
Thought I'd save Sam some work here.
USA TODAY
Updated 1:49 pm EST Mar. 4, 2025
WASHINGTON ‒ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's ready to work with President Donald Trump to negotiate a peace deal with Russia ‒ effectively ending a standoff between the leaders that exploded Monday evening when the U.S. said it would stop supplying the country with weapons.
This is the Moon thread. And Sam has never posted in it.
Fuck's sake.
Re: Return to the moon!
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:50 am
by Slap
HighPlainsGrifter wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:29 amPanspermia is the hypothesis that life spread throughout the universe from other planets. The word comes from the Greek words pan meaning "all" and sperma meaning, "seed."
Can you imagine Slap's ejaculate seedling life on Titan or some shit and a billion years later a humanoid race is worshipping him as their god?
