This is a good old-fashioned win for American business, American might, and the American spirit:
A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.
American firm Firefly Aerospace, which livestreamed the descent of its Blue Ghost lunar lander, said the craft arrived on the moon's surface at 3:34 a.m. EST.
'You all stuck the landing. We're on the moon,' Blue Ghost chief engineer Will Coogan said on the livestream, eliciting cheers from the mission control room.
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This is a good old-fashioned win for American business, American might, and the American spirit:
> A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.
> American firm Firefly Aerospace, which livestreamed the descent of its Blue Ghost lunar lander, said the craft arrived on the moon's surface at 3:34 a.m. EST.
> 'You all stuck the landing. We're on the moon,' Blue Ghost chief engineer Will Coogan said on the livestream, eliciting cheers from the mission control room.
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