Historic Dual Moon Mission Launches Today

Today, January 15, 2025, at 1:11 a.m. ET, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, launching Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and Japan's ispace Resilience to the Moon. This landmark mission marks the first time robotic landers from the US and Japan embark together, though they’ll follow separate paths. Blue Ghost aims to deliver ten NASA experiments to Mare Crisium in 45 days, while Resilience takes a leisurely orbit before deploying rover Tenacious. Meanwhile, booster B1085 eyes a splashdown on 'Just Read the Instructions'. Moon missions never looked so collaborative!