Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ancient 350-mile-wide (560-kilometer) impact basin in the northeast part of the near side of the Moon.

Learn about the two missions that are en route to the moon and find out what the companies behind them hope to learn from experiments on the lunar surface.

The upcoming mission, part of part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, includes the Blue Ghost lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace and the Tenacious lunar rover from the Japanese company ispace.