Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month.
Tokyo-based ispace's latest lander, Resilience, is still orbiting Earth and performing all its maneuvers to close in on the moon.
It's the first moonshot for Firefly and the second for ispace, which crashed its first lander into the moon in 2023.
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.
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