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Blue Ghost private lander reaches the Moon intact | Firefly Aerospace’s lander is the second commercial vehicle to touch down on the lunar surface.
Or upright and stable, at the very least.
The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. Having nailed its own landing, Blue Ghost will now spend a full lunar day (about two weeks) performing research operations, including “lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, X-ray imaging, and dust mitigation experiments.” These experiments aim to provide environmental data and test technologies that will help NASA again land crewed astronaut missions on the Moon. Blue Ghost was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 15th, alongside Resilience — another private lunar lander built by Japan’s iSpace aerospace firm.
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