Space Pioneer Achieves Historic Soft-Landing on Lunar Surface with NASA's CLPS Initiative

Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon’s surface as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The mission marks a historic milestone for the company, which has become the first commercial entity to achieve a fully successful soft-landing on the lunar surface. Firefly will now begin surface operations and support several NASA science demonstrations over the next 14 days, following touchdown at 2:34 a.m. CST on March 2. According to Firefly CEO Jason Kim, the company is ’literally and figuratively over the Moon’ with this achievement.