{"id":205248,"date":"2025-02-02T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/blue-ghost-lunar-lander-is-documenting-its-journey-to-the-moon-the-views-are-breathtaking"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:11:46","slug":"blue-ghost-lunar-lander-is-documenting-its-journey-to-the-moon-the-views-are-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/blue-ghost-lunar-lander-is-documenting-its-journey-to-the-moon-the-views-are-breathtaking","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost lunar lander is documenting its journey to the moon. The views are breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-ghost-lunar-lander-is-documenting-its-journey-to-the-moon-the-views-are-breathtaking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/14\/science\/nasa-launch-firefly-ispace-moon-landing\/index.html\">Blue Ghost lunar lander<\/a> has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft\u2019s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>The two images \u2014 which the company posted Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Firefly_Space\/status\/1883938640398786638\" target=\"_blank\">on the social media platform X<\/a> \u2014 features a view of the moon from the top deck of the 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) lunar lander as well as a snapshot of the celestial orb on its own.<\/p>\n<p>As the spacecraft continues its journey to the moon, with an expected landing date of March 2, Firefly plans to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/fireflyspace.com\/news\/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\">regular mission updates<\/a>, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft\u2019s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images \u2014 which the company posted Monday on the social media platform X \u2014 features a view of the moon from the top deck of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}