Jesus Charles tore his weary eyes away from the trio of screens on his console. He’d been fixated on the data running across the displays for nearly six hours, but the incoming signals had fallen silent. At 1:12 a.m., his company’s lunar lander, Blue Ghost, crossed to the far side of the moon and would be cut off from any communication with Earth for the next 27 minutes. There was little for Charles, the flight director, or his team to do. Except wait, silently fret, and hope for the best.While out of touch, more than 250,000 miles from Firefly Aerospace’s headquarters in the Austin suburb of Cedar Park, Blue Ghost would briefly switch on its main engine to begin a 62-mile descent. About an hour…
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