Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of the near side of the Moon.

SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where the Apollo 11 crew launched to the Moon. A Falcon 9 successfully lifted off during an instantaneous window on Wednesday,

The Japanese company will attempt its second landing on the Moon after it failed to do so in April 2023. Named Mission 2, it includes the HAKUTO-R lander Resilience that will be launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 from Florida carrying a tiny rover called Tenacious.