{"id":244510,"date":"2026-09-25T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/inside-fireflys-new-texas-facility-built-to-help-power-nasas-moon-base"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:03:21","slug":"inside-fireflys-new-texas-facility-built-to-help-power-nasas-moon-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/inside-fireflys-new-texas-facility-built-to-help-power-nasas-moon-base","title":{"rendered":"Inside Firefly\u2019s new Texas facility built to help power NASA\u2019s moon base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-fireflys-new-texas-facility-built-to-help-power-nasas-moon-base.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) \u2014 Lunar landers are making a new home in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyspace.com\/news\/firefly-aerospace-completes-new-cleanroom-to-accelerate-spacecraft-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Firefly Aerospace celebrated the completion of a new clean room facility<\/a> at its Cedar Park spacecraft campus, an expansion company leaders say will help support a growing number of lunar missions and future spacecraft production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat it really lets us able to do is that you can kind of have spacecraft flowing through the production line really smoothly,\u201d said Ray Allensworth, vice president of spacecraft at Firefly Aerospace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) \u2014 Lunar landers are making a new home in Central Texas. On Tuesday, Firefly Aerospace celebrated the completion of a new clean room facility at its Cedar Park spacecraft campus, an expansion company leaders say will help support a growing number of lunar missions and future spacecraft production. \u201cWhat it really [\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-244510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244510","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=244510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}