Mare Crisium, Moon. The Blue Ghost Mission 1 probe from the private startup Firefly Aerospace of Austin, Texas, launched on January 15th aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and arrived on the Moon, in Mare Crisium. It followed a long and winding path to the moon, 45 days in total, before landing. Like many US lunar missions during the same period, this one is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. In the name of economy, NASA sends experiments on private missions, but does not operate the spacecraft.
