Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost has become the first ever successful commercial moon landing. Newly released footage captured by the spacecraft shows the moment of touchdown on Mare Crisium, a basin in the north-east quadrant of the Moon on 2 March.

Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the moon Sunday has been released.

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, the second private-sector company to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon, released stunning footage from the Blue Ghost’s touchdown on Sunday.