Blue Ghost lands upright on the Moon
A commercial lander completes a full lunar day of operations without falling over.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
- Where
- Mare Crisium, Moon · 18.5600° N, 61.8100° E · Moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost touched down in Mare Crisium on 2 March 2025 and operated for a full lunar day, the first fully successful commercial lunar landing after the partial results of Odysseus and the failure of Peregrine. It drilled, vacuumed regolith and filmed a lunar sunset, and returned data on how dust levitates at the terminator.