A SpaceX mission lifted off early Wednesday marking a first for Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s plans to build up American companies to support its lunar goals. A Falcon 9 lifted off at 1:11 a.m. from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A carrying the Cedar Park,

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting launch early Wednesday morning carrying 10 NASA investigations to the moon's surface.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, targeting the Moon to carry out crucial science experiments. These experiments will test technologies from lunar drilling to radiation-resistant computing,