Touch down on the moon with private Blue Ghost lander in this amazing video
On Sunday (March 2), Blue Ghost — built and operated by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace — became just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon, coming to rest in the near side's Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") region.
Firefly Releases Stunning Footage of Blue Ghost Landing on the Moon
The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down within a 328-foot (100-meter) target next to a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.
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Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace successfully lands Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon
Kevin Scholtes, a future systems architect with Firefly Aerospace, hugs his wife Lauren Scholtes at a watch party held by the company in Cedar Park, after the company's Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touches down on the moon's surface on Sunday, March 2. Kailey Hunt/KUT News
"Y'all stuck the landing — we're on the moon." A Firefly Aerospace mission control engineer confirmed a successful lunar ...
Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.
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