1st commercial company in history completed a moon landing – Blue Ghost lunar lander

Blue Ghost is slated to touch down in Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side no earlier than 2:45 a.m. CST (0845 UTC) on Sunday, March 2. Live coverage, jointly hosted by Firefly and NASA, is scheduled to begin at 1:30 a.m. CST (0730 UTC)

Way to go! The 1st commercial company in history completed a moon landing. Here is the video from early am today! Really like the teams are called “Ghost Riders” and it’s also called FireFly –

Watch live as Firefly’s team of Ghost Riders prepare to land our Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon for the first time! Blue Ghost is slated to touch down in Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side no earlier than 2:45 a.m. CST (0845 UTC) on Sunday, March 2. Live coverage, jointly hosted by Firefly and NASA, is scheduled to begin at 1:30 a.m. CST (0730 UTC). Blue Ghost Mission 1 will deliver 10 science and technology instruments to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.

Blue Ghost Mission 1 will deliver 10 science and technology instruments to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Upon launching on January 15, Blue Ghost is spending approximately 45 days traveling to the Moon, allowing ample time to conduct health checks on each subsystem and begin payload science. Blue Ghost is set to land in Mare Crisium on March 2 and operate payloads for a complete lunar day (about 14 Earth days). On March 14, Firefly expects to capture high-definition imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the Moon’s horizon. Blue Ghost will then capture the lunar sunset on March 16, providing data on how lunar dust levitates due to solar influences and creates a lunar horizon glow first documented by Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17. Following sunset, Blue Ghost will operate several hours into the lunar night.

Mission info here, video of the last few moments before landing, and they also showed an image pre-landing (time code URL).

Blue Ghost Mission 1

Blue Ghost Mission 1

Here are couple from-the-moon photos they are posting on X (formerly Twitter).


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