Firefly Aerospace’s moon mission makes succesful touchdown
A private space mission has reached an important milestone by successfully landing on the moon. Firefly Aerospace, a start-up from Texas, achieved this feat with their robotic spacecraft Blue Ghost, making them only the second commercial company to reach the lunar surface.
Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace successfully lands Blue Ghost spacecraft on the moon
Kevin Scholtes, a future systems architect with Firefly Aerospace, hugs his wife Lauren Scholtes at a watch party held by the company in Cedar Park, after the company's Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touches down on the moon's surface on Sunday, March 2. Kailey Hunt/KUT News
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The original version of the company, Firefly Space Systems, was founded in 2014. The chief executive was Thomas Markusic, an aerospace engineer who had previously worked for three billionaire ...
Firefly offers our customers responsive operations and mission flexibility with launch sites on the East and West Coast of the United States and internationally,” said Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly ...
Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines ...
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