Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim joins LiveNOW's Andy Mac to discuss the company's Blue Ghost lander touching down on the moon Sunday to deliver experiments and supplies for NASA.
The company’s Mission Control outside of Austin, Texas, confirmed the successful landing.
Blue Ghost is a private lunar lander owned by Firefly Aerospace. It’s the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on the moon ahead of astronaut missions.
Launched in mid-January from Florida, the lander carried 10 experiments to the moon for NASA. The space agency paid $101 million for the delivery, plus $44 million for the science and tech on board. It’s the third mission under NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program, intended to ignite a lunar economy of competing private businesses while scouting around before astronauts show up later this decade.
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