What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-its-kind data imagery of the interaction between the lander’s engine plumes and the lunar surface. That kind of data is critical, because as the United States returns […]
Published by NASA on 12/09/2025
