'We're on the moon!' Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA

Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing | Space Quiz! How many dwarf galaxies are known to orbit the Andromeda galaxy? | This Week In Space: Episode 150 - Our Listener Special Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com |  Web Version March 3, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE The Launchpad (Firefly Aerospace) Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing Blue Ghost just became the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early yesterday morning (Mar 2). The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface for NASA, which was understandably happy with today's result. "We're on the moon!" Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said during the landing webcast. "I'm sorry -- I'm just so excited right now." Read More Space Quiz! How many dwarf galaxies are known to orbit the Andromeda galaxy? Learn the answer here! 15 36 42 3 (TWiS) This Week In Space: Episode 150 - Our Listener Special On Episode 150 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq answer your questions, respond to your comments, and have lined up a number of your most tummy-tickling space jokes. This one is more fun than wearing new shoes! Watch now Skywatching (Eric Lowenbach/Getty Images) Brightest stars in March's night sky and how to see them The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Mercury puts on its best evening apparition of 2025 for Northern Hemisphere observers during these two weeks. Then, well up in the southern and western sky is Jupiter. Mars, accompanied by its stellar companions Pollux and Castor, climbs almost overhead a couple of hours after sunset and continues to noticeably dim as it pulls away from Earth. Read More Spaceflight (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 launching for 2nd time ever today: Watch live Europe's powerful new Ariane 6 rocket will fly for the second time ever today (March 3), and you can watch the action live. The Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch a French spy satellite from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today at 11:24 a.m. EST (1624 GMT; 1:24 p.m. local time in Kourou). Watch the action live at Space.com or directly via the France-based company Arianespace. Coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff. Watch Live Science & Astronomy (NASA/ESA/Alessandro Savino (UC Berkeley)/Joseph DePasquale (STScI)/Akira Fujii DSS2) Hubble asks how Andromeda's dwarf galaxies formed Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough images to get a full family portrait of Andromeda's brightest satellites. Read More SpaceX (SpaceX) Watch SpaceX launch its Starship Flight 8 test flight today SpaceX plans to launch the eighth test flight of its huge Starship rocket today (March 3), and you can watch it live. Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today during a window that opens at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). Watch Live Technology (NASA/Carla Thomas) NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic jet clears 'major hurdle' NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms that typically accompany supersonic flight. And based on the results of the vehicle's latest tests, conducted at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, the X-59 might accomplish that feat soon. Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036