Private lunar lander Blue Ghost lands on the moon with equipment for NASA

A backstage lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and different instrumentality to deliver for NASA touched down connected the satellite connected Sunday, the latest of respective companies seeking to kickstart concern connected Earth's earthy outer up of astronaut missions.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit connected autopilot, targeting the slopes of an past volcanic dome successful an interaction basin connected the moon’s northeastern borderline of the adjacent side.

The company's Mission Control, located extracurricular Austin, Texas, confirmed a palmy landing.

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This representation provided by Firefly Aerospace connected Feb. 26, 2025, shows Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander orbiting the moon. (Firefly Aerospace via AP)

"You each stuck the landing. We’re connected the moon," Firefly’s Will Coogan, main technologist for the lander, said.

An upright and unchangeable landing made Firefly the archetypal backstage institution to enactment a spacecraft connected the moon without crashing oregon falling over. Some governments moving connected abstraction formation person failed successful the past, arsenic lone 5 countries — Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan — person been successful.

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aft touching down connected the satellite with a peculiar transportation for NASA connected Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

Blue Ghost, which was named aft a uncommon U.S. taxon of firefly, is simply a four-legged lander lasting 6-foot-6 gangly and 11 feet wide, offering other stability, according to the company.

About fractional an hr aft landing, Blue Ghost started to nonstop backmost pictures from the surface. The archetypal representation was a selfie somewhat obscured by the sun's glare.

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In this rendering, backstage lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down connected the satellite with a peculiar transportation for NASA connected Sunday, March 2, 2025. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP)

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Two different companies’ landers are making missions soon, with the adjacent 1 expected to articulation the Blue Ghost on the moon aboriginal this week.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.