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Blue Ghost, a NASA-funded lunar lander built and operated by the private U.S. company Firefly Aerospace, has successfully touched down on the moon.

After 45 days in space—and a pulse-pounding semi-autonomous hour-long descent to its landing site—at 3:34 A.M. EST the boxy, car-sized spacecraft’s four footpad-tipped legs crunched into the surface of Mare Crisium, a vast and ancient impact basin filled with frozen lava on the moon’s northeastern near side. This marks the second time the U.S. has soft-landed on the moon since the crewed Apollo 17 mission of 1972

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What are you on about? This is a robotic mission.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I realize a lot of online comments are either support or complaint about an article but Im a bit wierd in that sometimes I just comment around the subject. What got me thinking about it is it did not seem to have a rover or anything so was a bit disapointed (unless the article simply did not mention it or felt measurements implied that). So my comment is just on the nasa back to the moon and musks american flags on mars stuff. articles like this just get me thinking about the subject.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

This line of landers is a delivery system. This mission was to prove they can do it successfully. It carried ten scientific experiment payloads, as noted in the article.