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: To land Blue Ghost on the moon, Firefly Aerospace laid out 14 major mission milestones from Earth to the lunar surface. To land your own Blue Ghost, you will need to follow 42 steps. The Blue Ghost Mission 1 Building Blocks Set creates a 1:18 scale model of the moon lander from 196 Lego-like pieces. The kit is specific to the current "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission, featuring a few of the NASA-provided instruments.
: As of 2:34 a.m. CST (0834 GMT) on Sunday (March 2), the moon is home to a new spacecraft. Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first Blue Ghost, becoming just the second company in history to safely reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost is now a platform for 10 NASA-provided payloads and first-of-its-kind demonstrations, which will operate for a full lunar day (14 Earth days), ending with a sunset at Mare Crisium.
: We don't know what Lego and Lunar Outpost have planned, other than a "future product," but we are here for their collaboration. The Danish toy company revealed its partnership with the Colorado space robotics firm as the latter's first lunar rover left Earth for the moon. Lego did not share any other details, but did promise "more than a few surprises along the way," as its work together with Lunar Outpost blasts off "later this year."
: Intuitive Machines' second Nova-C lander, named "Athena," is on the moon, but at an "off-nominal" angle on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole. Athena brought with it to the surface NASA and commercial payloads, including Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover; Intuitive Machines' Micro-Nova Hopper "Grace"; a lunar surface cellular network from Nokia; and PRIME-1, a NASA drill that was to (and may still) search for water ice.
NASA's Artemis II crew wants your help designing the zero-g indicator that will fly with them around the moon. In the Moon Mascot: NASA Artemis II ZGI Design Challenge, students and adults can submit their original ideas for the small toy to be made by NASA's Thermal Blanket Lab technicians. The dolls are constrained by size, weight and material, and need to be meaningful to the mission, as well as "represent humanity."
