Four -legged robots from Texas fell directly on the moon on March 2, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to carry out a drop on the moon without falling or crashing. Lander, known as Blue Ghost and built by Firefly Aerospace, is aimed at Cedar Park, Texas, to spend two weeks in NASA’s scientific experiments.
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Blue Ghost fell in the Mare Crisium area of the moon at 2.34 am Texas time. “We are on the moon’s surface again,” Vanessa Wechi, Acting Acting Acting Agency in Washington, DC, told a post -dyeing press conference.
Other companies have tried to land on the moon before, but lost their craft in space or crashed while trying to land. Last year, ITUITIVE MACHINES, which is based in Houston, managed to land in the Odysseus spacecraft, but it hit the Earth so much that it broke its leg and irrigated it on its side.
After its launch on January 15, it appears that Blue Ghost has come out of the complex sequence of independent maneuvers required to approach and land on the moon. Her first photos showed that the investigation was sitting in a straight position on the gray surface, and included an exciting shot of its shadows on the surface of the moon while the Earth was shining in the sky above.
The drop is a victory that affects the need for the NASA lunar load services program, which started in 2018 when the agency began contracting with airlines to develop scientific tools to the moon. Blue Ghost is the third task in this series; The fourth, which is the second attempt of intuitive machines, aims to land near the southern pole of the moon on March 6.
“We have begun to hit our rhythm,” said Nicolas Fox, head of the NASA Directorate of Science Mission.
Blue Ghost acquired the first sunrise on the moon after a successful landing.Credit: Firefly Aerospace