Blue Ghost becomes second private spacecraft to land on the Moon

A special spacecraft landed on the moon, and the second commercial car became only to reach the moon.

Blue Ghost left the Earth on January 15thAfter launch by the American Firefly Aerospace company with the intention of exploring the sea of ​​crises, a huge visible hole from the ground.

The project is the latest cooperation by NASA and private companies.

Intuitive machinery, another company, hopes to get a Athens spacecraft near the southern pole of the moon in the next few days.

It was the intuitive of the first private company to achieve lunar landing. Spacecraft Odysseus arrived at the moon on February 22nd last year.

However, the task was short -term as the spacecraft landed on the slope of the hole, broke some landing equipment and retreated.

The blue ghost fell smoothly, after it was The moon is going on in the past two weeks.

The employees erupted at the Firefly headquarters in Texas to chanting and applause when they were told that their landing was successful.

Dr. Simon Barber, a researcher in the science of planets from the Open University, said that Blue Ghost was mainly the first successful special project for the moon, as the car was sound and fast to respond.

The BBC said breakfast: “[They’ve] Show a technique for landing on the moon, the type that was forgotten after the Apollo era when we had astronauts on [lunar] surface.”

Dr. Barber said that the importance of the moon for many private companies is to use it as a launch pillow to explore the rest of the area.

“By going to the moon, we can learn how to run automated tools in space [and] In the truly harsh moon environment, which is sometimes hot and sometimes cold. It is very dust, there is a lot of radiation. “

He said at some point that people would have returned to the surface of the moon and explained that it was long due to the lack of funding.

The last time humans are on the surface of the moon on December 19, 1972, During the Apollo 17 mission.

“Apollo’s missions were very successful,” explained by Dr. Barber. “But they were tasks” touch and going. “

At that time, astronauts there will be for three days before being forced to leave again, as the costs were going in billions of dollars. “This is not sustainable,” he said.

Dr. Barber said that the belief now is that bringing private companies to the barn will help reduce costs as a result of commercial competition.

This can lead to cheaper lands and innovations that may extract resources from the moon, such as water to drink astronauts.

It was the first private company to try to reach the moon another American company, Astrobotic Technology.

They tried to reach the moon in January 2024, but Handner never reached the moon, due to the suspected fuel leakage, and returned to Earth.

the Fire descent means that the spacecraft separates In its last moments before it drowns in the southern ocean in the Pacific Ocean.