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A Private Space Mission Just Successfully Landed on the Moon for the First Time
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.
Having launched in January, the Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down at Mare Crisium, in the vicinity of a mountain called Mons Latreille, at 3:34 am Eastern Time on Sunday March 2. CLPS, which commenced in 2018, gives money to private companies to build landers that can carry NASA instruments and other equipment to the lunar surface ahead of the planned return of humans later this decade. The Blue Ghost lunar module lifted off on January 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and traveled nearly 5 million kilometers to reach its destination, at a cost of $2.6 billion.
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