Blue Ghost, a Private U.S. Spacecraft, Lands on the Moon

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft

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; the first occurred just over a year ago when another robotic commercial mission, the Odysseus lander from the company Intuitive Machines, made moonfall lopsided but intact in a crater near the lunar south pole. (Another U.S. commercial mission, the Peregrine lander from the company Astrobotic, failed to reach the moon in January 2024.)

“We’re on the moon!” cheered Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate after observing the landing at a Firefly Aerospace watch party near the company’s mission control center in Cedar Park, Texas.

“Every single thing was clockwork, even when we landed,” said Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim at the same event. “We’ve got some moon dust on our boots!”

“I’m so proud of our team. Firefly has a way of constantly exceeding expectations, and this is a perfect example of that,” said Brigette Oakes, Firefly Aerospace’s vice president of engineering, during a livestream just after the landing. “Now we have a permanent presence on the moon, with every [Firefly Aerospace] employee’s name engraved on the Blue Ghost plaque. Now when we look up at the moon we can tell our kids and future generations that our names are up there.”

“I can’t tell you how excited I am right now to get to be here and experience a landing on the moon,” said NASA acting administrator Janet Petro from Firefly’s watch party. “I think this administration really wants to keep America first, and I think the way that we keep America first is by dominating in all the domains of space…. As long as we keep dominating that [lunar] space I think we’re gonna be putting America first, [and] we’re gonna be making America proud.”

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blue-ghost-a-private-u-s-spacecraft-successfully-lands-on-the-moon/

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>>22686324

Good point.

Just like last time

• except -

They just got caught in a BIG lie.

Apollo astronauts said that stars are not visible when you are in outer space.

This was used to explain the complete lack of stars in the Apollo moon landing photos.

Today's landing photo shows lots of stars so - who's lying here???

>>22686362

"you can't see stars from space", but now you can???

(second pic is from today)

Why Aren't There Stars in the Moon Landing Photos?

A vocal minority believes that the moon landing was all an elaborate hoax filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood, but it's no hoax. Here's why…

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin climbed down from the Eagle Lunar Module (leaving behind poor Michael Collins) to put the first footprints on the moon. That's the story, at least. A vocal minority believes that the moon landing was all an elaborate hoax filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood. Among their evidence is the fact that photographs and video footage don't show any stars in the sky. How could the Hollywood producers be so careless in their conspiracy? In fact, there's a pretty mundane explanation: The camera settings weren't adjusted to capture them.

Look at This Photograph

If you wanted to take a picture of a friend in direct sunlight, you'd adjust your camera settings in two ways. You'd narrow the aperture, which keeps the light-collecting area on the lens small to avoid letting in too much light: the same reason your pupils constrict in bright sunlight. You'd also speed up the shutter speed so the camera sensor would only let in light for a brief moment. If you wanted to take a picture of that same friend at night, you'd probably slow down the shutter speed and widen the aperture so you could let in enough light for a good shot.

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https://www.discovery.com/science/apollo-50th-anniversary/why-aren-t-there-stars-in-the-moon-landing-photos-

>>22686373

anyanon?

The famous Q post, "Note past (2) years", "Note next (6) years," Q says, "you were told".

I've looked and I can't figure which post Q was referring to with, "you were told".

It had to be from before July 9th, 2019.

Can't find it.

Anyanon know???

>>22686461

Guess what

And by the way…

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>>22686525

I thought claudia rosenstein or whatever her name is said she would NEVER allow the US to do that.

>>22686548

juba this, juba that

>>22686561

Superbowl was supposed the be the largest sex trafficking event.

Trump is hurting their ability to sex traffic.

So now, "pizza" will cost more during the superbowl.

>>22686599

So Pepe took the pic.

I feel like I should mention that due to the vacuum of space and reduced gravity of the moon, clothing is not visible in space, so Pepe is appropriately dressed. You just can't see the clothes.

>>22686611

Forgot to wear my gravy boots.