India, March 3 -- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, carrying a suite of NASA science and technology payloads to the Moon, touched down on the lunar surface on Sunday.
After launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 15, the Blue Ghost lander landed near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side.
After landing, Blue Ghost is scheduled to perform surface commissioning with health checks on each subsystem. Once completed, the lander will be ready to perform its payload operations and science demonstrations.
Aboard the mission are a suite of technology and science payloads as part of the U.S. space agenc...