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January 15, 2025
SpaceX Falcon 9 'Ghost Riders in the Sky'

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 "Resilience"

Launched: 1:11 AM EST
Launch site: Space Launch Complex (SLC) 39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Booster: B1085, 5th Flight
Payload: Two Moon Landers

Viewing Site: Press Site at Kennedy Space Center
A Special Thanks to NASA for providing the Press Pass for this historic flight

PHOTOS
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VIDEOS

Flag Half-Mast honoring President Carter

Camera 1 Launch Full Video

Camera 1 Slow motion

Camera 2 Full

Camera 3 View

Booster recovery: Drone Ship 'Just Read the Instructions' (JRTI)
Fairing recovery: Cargo Ship 'Bob'

SpaceX Stats:
8th launch of the year and the xx launch of the month.

100th launch from SLC-39A.
107th landing on JRTI.
57th successful landing without fail.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a pair of lunar landers to begin independent journeys to the Moon.
The primary payload was Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander.
It will carry 10 science payloads from NASA as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
The 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' mission will target a landing at Mare Crisium, near Mons Latreille, in early March 2025.

Japan-based ispace's Resilience lander will also travel to the Moon as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9 rocket.
It will take between four and five months before making its landing attempt near the center of Mare Frigoris. It caries a number of payloads, including the 'Tenacious' micro-rover.