{"id":1236464,"date":"2025-03-03T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236464"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:36:26","slug":"fireflys-picture-perfect-moon-landing-shows-the-way-for-lunar-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236464","title":{"rendered":"Firefly\u2019s picture-perfect Moon landing shows the way for lunar exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to make a picture-perfect landing on the Moon early Sunday, touching down on<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0an<\/span> ancient basaltic plain, named Mare Crisium, to fulfill a $101 million contract with NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon&#8217;s surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen engineers in Firefly&#8217;s mission control room monitored real-time data streaming down from a quarter-million miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Y\u2019all stuck the landing, we\u2019re on the Moon!&#8221; announced Will Coogan, the lander&#8217;s chief engineer, to the Firefly team gathered in Leander, Texas, a suburb north of Austin. Down the street, at a middle-of-the-night event for Firefly employees, their families, and VIPs, the crowd erupted in applause and toasted champagne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/fireflys-ghostly-landing-proves-a-scrappy-company-can-shoot-for-the-moon\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/03\/fireflys-ghostly-landing-proves-a-scrappy-company-can-shoot-for-the-moon\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to make a picture-perfect landing on the Moon early Sunday, touching down on\u00a0an ancient basaltic plain, named Mare Crisium, to fulfill a $101 million contract with NASA. The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}