Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, including one here in Texas, SpaceX granted that wish.

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander soared out of the Florida coastline and into space, shining as bright as a Central Texas firefly in the summertime. "It's an incredible privilege, and it's hard to fully understand the extent of that impact," said Kevin Scholtes, the future systems architect at Firefly Aerospace.

A SpaceX mission set to lift off overnight marks a first for Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s plans to build up American companies to support its lunar goals. A Falcon 9 targeting a 1:11 a.m, liftoff Wednesday from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A is carrying the Cedar Park,

Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and completed on-orbit commissioning.

But at 12:11 a.m. CST, they launched together on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is launching its first moon mission ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later. The lunar lander — part of a mission known as Blue Ghost Mission 1 or Ghost Riders in the Sky — will spend 45 days in orbit and 14 days on the surface of the moon.

The liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center carried landers from Japanese ... More John Raoux/AP Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based company, is flying a set of 10 NASA-funded experiments on its ...

SpaceX is set to launch another batch of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit during a four-hour launch window that opens at 12:13 a.m. ET.

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace says that "Blue Ghost" has successfully completed its first burn. This means that they used the engines and thrusters to change the spacecraft's speed and direction, moving its orbit closer to the Earth for the next step of its mission.

Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as numerous flight hardware shipments from across the world arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first crewed Artemis flight test and follow-on lunar missions.

Firefly Aerospace launches Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a 45-day journey to conduct scientific experiments on the moon.

Blue Ghost and New Glenn started off the year right. Many more launches are on the way, and many can be watched online.