St. Charles native Benjamin Tackett could soon join an exclusive group of space explorers — if his team can successfully ...

Firefly Aerospace expects to start launching its Alpha rocket from launch sites in Virginia and Sweden as soon as 2026 to ...

Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, celebrates the successful launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 is making strides toward the Moon, with NASA’s SCALPSS 1.1 successfully capturing ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A SpaceX mission set ... that goes into that,” said Kevin Scholtes, a future systems architect for Firefly has been working on Blue Ghost since 2021.

The video shared by the company captures the moment when Earth briefly eclipsed the Moon, providing a unique perspective from ...

Kevin Scholtes, Firefly's future systems architect ... is doing is they’re contracting for the manifest capacity in the space, as opposed to the lander specifically,” Scholtes told FLORIDA ...