Launch of Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander a success
Launching at 1:11 a.m. EST on Jan. 15, a SpaceX rocket carried the lunar lander built by Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace Inc. into space. Its eventual destination: the moon. The 45-day journey from the Earth to the Moon carries with it multiple scientific instruments as part of NASA ’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative.