CLPS Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Encapsulation

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is encapsulated inside SpaceX’s rocket fairing ahead of its targeted liftoff for 1:11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 will be the company’s first flight to the Moon as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign.