{"id":206488,"date":"2025-02-14T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/welcome-to-the-moon-fireflys-blue-ghost-lander-reaches-lunar-orbit-video-photos"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:17:29","slug":"welcome-to-the-moon-fireflys-blue-ghost-lander-reaches-lunar-orbit-video-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/welcome-to-the-moon-fireflys-blue-ghost-lander-reaches-lunar-orbit-video-photos","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the moon! Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/welcome-to-the-moon-fireflys-blue-ghost-lander-reaches-lunar-orbit-video-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/fireflys-blue-ghost-lunar-lander-leaves-earth-orbit-to-head-for-the-moon\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/fireflys-blue-ghost-lunar-lander-leaves-earth-orbit-to-head-for-the-moon\"><strong>Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Ghost <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-2-private-lunar-landers-to-the-moon-photos\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-2-private-lunar-landers-to-the-moon-photos\">launched Jan. 15<\/a> atop a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket. The lander\u2019s mission, called \u201cGhost Riders in the Sky,\u201d is part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Blue Ghost is carrying 10 science and technology experiments for the agency, which wants to better understand the lunar environment before sending astronauts back to the moon via its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\">Artemis program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in the Mare Crisium (\u201cSea of Crises\u201d) region of the moon\u2019s near side on March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related: Firefly\u2019s Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon Blue Ghost launched Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lander\u2019s mission, called \u201cGhost Riders in the Sky,\u201d is part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Blue Ghost is carrying 10 science and technology experiments for 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-206488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206488","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=206488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}