NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, lifted off successfully from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

The number of crew aboard the space station will increase to 11 for a short time as Crew-10 joins NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. Following a brief handover period, Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov will return to Earth no earlier than Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Ahead of Crew-9’s departure from station, mission teams will review weather conditions at the splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/SpaceX
Capture Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Crew Departure+Commander's Message to World

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Crew Departure+Commander's Message to World

From left to right, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members play the traditional card game with NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14, 2025.

These are views of Crew-10 departing the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, lifted off successfully from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

Once the crew safely reached Earth orbit, Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain shared this message: "Thank you to all of the teams from across the world who contributed to the launch today. Space flight is tough, but humans are tougher."

"Days like today are made possible only when people choose to do the harder right over the easier runs, build relationships, choose cooperation, and believe in the inherent goodness of all people across the world. To my family and friends, without you, I would not be here."

"Explore boldly. Live gracefully. Go Crew-10!"

Crew-10 Pilot Nichole Ayers also stated: "We are not the first humans to reach orbit and we would not be here without the bravery and hard work of those who paved the way for human spaceflight. We now get the unique perspective of Earth without borders and get to revel in the connectedness of humanity . . ." 

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

To learn more about NASA and the Kennedy Space Center please visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

Image Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett/Cory Huston
Image Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Launch Highlights | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Launch Highlights | Kennedy Space Center

Highlights from the broadcast of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission launch to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, lifted off successfully from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about Kennedy Space Center: 

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Duration: 1 minute, 33 seconds
Release Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Falcon 9 Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Falcon 9 Liftoff | Kennedy Space Center

Four crew members are headed for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts and cosmonauts at the orbiting laboratory.

Liftoff of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft took place at Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

To learn more about NASA and the Kennedy Space Center please visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 34 seconds

Capture Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Crew Walkout | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Crew Walkout | Kennedy Space Center

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, right, and Nichole Ayers gesture to friends and family as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission launch, Friday, March 14, 2025.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers speaks with family and friends as she and crewmates NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks with family and friends as he and crewmates NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks with family and friends as he and crewmates NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia speaks with family and friends as he and crewmates NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.

NASA astronaut Anne McClain waves as she and crewmates NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

The vehicles that will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, are seen as the crew prepares to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.

Four crew members are preparing for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts and cosmonauts at the orbiting laboratory.

Liftoff is targeted for 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

To learn more about NASA and the Kennedy Space Center please visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Image Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Falcon 9 Pre-launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission: Falcon 9 Pre-launch | Kennedy Space Center

The lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025, can be seen above the SpaceX Dragon spaceraft and Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the first two photos. Four crew members are preparing for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 Mission. NASA astronauts Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Russia will join astronauts and cosmonauts at the orbiting laboratory.

Liftoff is targeted for 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, 2025.

The flight is the 10th crew rotation with SpaceX to the station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). While aboard, the international crew will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future missions and benefit people on Earth.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

To learn more about NASA and the Kennedy Space Center please visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Image Dates: March 12 & 14, 2025

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Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Original Mission Trailer

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Original Mission Trailer

This is Japan's original MMX Mission concept before the German-French IDEFIX rover was added. How did Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos form? The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission aims to answer this very question. Developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft will explore Phobos from orbit and collect samples from its surface. On board MMX will be the IDEFIX rover—a collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French space agency, Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES). IDEFIX will land on Phobos, analyze its surface properties and help select a suitable landing site for the MMX mothership. The MMX mission is scheduled to launch from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center in 2026.

This animation shows the planned mission timeline—from the journey to Mars and its moons, the exploration of Phobos from orbit, the sample collection by the mothercraft, and its return to Earth.

Learn more about the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission:
https://www.mmx.jaxa.jp/en/

Video Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: Aug. 18, 2021

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Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission: International Partnership

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission: International Partnership

How did Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos form? The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission aims to answer this very question. Developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft will explore Phobos from orbit and collect samples from its surface. On board MMX will be the IDEFIX rover—a collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French space agency, Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES). IDEFIX will land on Phobos, analyze its surface properties and help select a suitable landing site for the MMX mothership. The MMX mission is scheduled to launch from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center in 2026.

This animation shows the planned mission timeline—from the journey to Mars and its moons, the exploration of Phobos from orbit and on the surface with the IDEFIX rover, to the sample collection by the mothercraft and its return to Earth.

Learn more about the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission:
https://www.mmx.jaxa.jp/en/

Video Credit: DLR/German Aerospace Center
Duration: 7 minutes
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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Deimos Moon over Planet Mars | Europe's Hera Asteroid Mission

Deimos Moon over Planet Mars | Europe's Hera Asteroid Mission

The European Space Agency's Hera Mission captured this close-up view of the Martian moon Deimos at a distance of around 1,000 kilometers. Like Phobos, Deimos is a small and lumpy, heavily cratered object. Its craters are generally smaller than 1.6 miles (2.5 kilometers) in diameter, however, and it lacks the grooves and ridges seen on Phobos. When impacted, dust and debris will leave the surface of the moon because it does not have enough gravitational pull to retain the ejecta. However, the gravity from Mars will keep a ring of this debris around the planet in approximately the same region that the moon orbits. As the moon revolves, the debris is redeposited as a dusty layer on its surface. Deimos has a thick regolith, perhaps as deep as 328 feet (100 meters), formed as meteorites pulverized the surface.

Deimos is a dark body that appears to be composed of C-type surface materials, similar to that of asteroids found in the outer asteroid belt. 

The Hera spacecraft will revisit the Dimorphos asteroid to gather vital close-up data about the deflected body after NASA's DART Mission performed a grand-scale experiment by applying a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique. 

On September 26, 2022, moving at 6.1 km/s, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid. Part of our Solar System changed. The impact shrunk the orbit of the Great Pyramid-sized Dimorphos around its parent asteroid, the mountain-sized Didymos. 

The Hera Mission will also perform the most detailed exploration yet of a binary asteroid system—although binaries make up 15% of all known asteroids, one has never been surveyed in detail.

Hera will also perform technology demonstration experiments, including the deployment of the European Space Agency’s first deep space ‘CubeSats’—shoebox-sized spacecraft to venture closer than the main mission then eventually land—and an ambitious test of 'self-driving' for the main spacecraft, based on vision-based navigation.

Learn more about the Hera Mission:
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera

Image Processing by Andrea Luck: "For the colourisation, I've used a reference image from ESA's Mars Express of this area: HO544_000 in RGB, taken on 2023-06-09 (raw data available at psa.esa.int)

Credit: ESA/AFC/DLR/FUBerlin/Andrea Luck CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Image Date: March 12, 2025
Release Date: March 14, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: March 12-13, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: March 12-13, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Mars 2020 - sol 1443

Mars 2020 - sol 1443

MSL - Sol 4478

MSL - Sol 4478

MSL - Sol 4479

MSL - Sol 4479

MSL - Sol 4479

MSL - Sol 4477

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Celebrating 12+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Celebrating 4+ Years on Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: March 12-13, 2025

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NASA's Space to Ground: Prelude to a Launch | Week of March 14, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground: Prelude to a Launch | Week of March 14, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Expedition 72 will wait at least another day for the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission as support personnel work a ground issue at the launchpad. Meanwhile, the International Space Station stayed busy with host a microgravity research exploring robotics, combustion, and adaptation to weightlessness.

Crew-10 is now targeted to launch to the orbital outpost no earlier than 7:03 p.m. EDT on Friday, March 14, 2025. Engineers at Kennedy Space Center are investigating a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the launch pad. For an on-time launch, the Dragon crew spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia would dock to the orbital outpost’s Harmony module at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA Flight Engineers: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: March 14, 2025

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NASA Espacio A Tierra | En la Estación, en la Luna: 7 de marzo 2025

NASA Espacio A Tierra | En la Estación, en la Luna: 7 de marzo 2025

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial: 
https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: 
https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Video Credit: NASA en Español

Hosted by: Ana Cristina Olvera
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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¿Qué sucede durante un eclipse lunar total y cómo ayuda a la NASA a aprender más sobre la Luna?

¿Qué sucede durante un eclipse lunar total y cómo ayuda a la NASA a aprender más sobre la Luna?

Un evento astronómico poco frecuente está por ocurrir: un eclipse lunar total. 

Esta noche o en la madrugada, según tu zona horaria, la Luna se teñirá de rojo. ¿Qué sucede durante un eclipse lunar total y cómo nos ayudan a aprender más sobre nuestro satélite? Conoce las respuestas en este video. 

Video Credit: NASA en Español
Duration: 2 minutes, 29 seconds
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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What is a Lunar Eclipse? | The Florida Space Institute

What is a Lunar Eclipse? | The Florida Space Institute

What is a Lunar Eclipse? ‪The Florida Space Institute‬'s Julie Brisset talks about what makes this eclipse so special!  Of course, this can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy) with Earth between the other two. During these rare events, the full Moon rapidly darkens and then glows red as it enters the Earth's shadow. A small amount of indirect sunlight is still reaching the Moon, passing through Earth's atmosphere, resulting in a reddish hue. This light appears reddish due to the Rayleigh scattering of blue light, the same reason sunrises and sunsets are more orange than during the day.

Dr. Julie Brisset is the Interim Director for the Florida Space Institute and an accomplished researcher in the space field. In 2014, Dr. Brisset earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Braunshweig, Germany. Her research focuses on experimental physics, specifically the behavior of dust and ice grains in microgravity conditions, with applications to the early stages of planet formation and the structure and surfaces of small bodies in the Solar System.

The Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida: https://fsi.ucf.edu/

Video Credit: University of Central Florida Office of Research
Duration: 1 minute, 42 seconds
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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360 Degree View: Athena Lunar Lander Descent | IM-2 Mission | Intuitive Machines

360 Degree View: Athena Lunar Lander Descent | IM-2 Mission | Intuitive Machines

This 360 image is stitched together using four cameras on Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission lander, Athena, during descent toward the lunar surface on March 6, 2025.

Intuitive Machines Final Update: "The IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, landed 250 meters from its intended landing site in the Mons Mouton region of the lunar south pole, inside of a crater."

"Images downlinked from Athena on the lunar surface confirmed that Athena was on her side. After landing, mission controllers were able to accelerate several program and payload milestones, including NASA’s PRIME-1 suite, before the lander’s batteries depleted."

"With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the solar panels, and extreme cold temperatures in the crater, Intuitive Machines does not expect Athena to recharge. The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected throughout the mission."

"This southern pole region is lit by harsh sun angles and limited direct communication with the Earth. This area has been avoided due to its rugged terrain and Intuitive Machines believes the insights and achievements from IM-2 will open this region for further space exploration."

Video Credit: Intuitive Machine
Duration: 3 minutes
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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Blue Ghost Moon Landing Captured by NASA Onboard Cameras | Firefly Aerospace

Blue Ghost Moon Landing Captured by NASA Onboard Cameras | Firefly Aerospace

This compressed, resolution-limited video features a preliminary sequence of the Blue Ghost final descent and landing that NASA researchers stitched together from SCALPSS 1.1’s four short-focal-length cameras, capturing images at 8 frames per second. Altitude data is approximate.

The Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument took the images during the descent and successful soft landing of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon’s Mare Crisium region on March 2, 2025 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

Follow along for more Blue Ghost Mission 1 updates: 
https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/

Learn more about the mission: 

https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

This is part of NASA’s CLPS initiative and Artemis campaign to establish a long-term lunar presence. Blue Ghost Mission 1 will perform science and technology demonstrations, including lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, and X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetic field to advance research for future human missions on the Moon and provide insights into how space weather impacts the planet. Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.

Learn more about NASA's CLPS Program:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-lunar-payload-services

Video Credit: NASA's Langley Research Center / Olivia Tyrrell
Duration: 40 seconds
Release Date: March 13, 2025

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