A movie like a scene from a movie in which the private lunar lander 'Blue Ghost' lands on the moon will be released



At 8:34 UTC on March 2, 2025 (17:34 Japan time), the American space company Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander '

Blue Ghost ' successfully landed on the moon, becoming the second private aircraft to do so. On March 5, 2025, Firefly Aerospace released a video that summarized the approximately three minutes leading up to the moment Blue Ghost landed on the moon.

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace
https://fireflyspace.com/missions/blue-ghost-mission-1/

Touch down on the moon with private Blue Ghost lander in this amazing video | Space
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You can see the Blue Ghost firing its thrusters to raise the moon's dust, as well as footage of the Blue Ghost looking at the Earth from the moon's surface, from the following.



The Earth floats in the dark moon sky.



As Blue Ghost slowed down for landing on the moon, it used attitude control to level the craft against the lunar surface.



The holey surface of the moon gradually comes closer.



The lunar horizon.



As the time for landing approached, the shadow of the Blue Ghost could be seen falling on the lunar surface.



The Blue Ghost descends further, kicking up lunar dust.



After a small impact that shook the aircraft, the Blue Ghost landed safely.



Once the dust settles, you'll be able to clearly see the Blue Ghost and the Earth as seen from the Moon.



The staff in the control room celebrate the successful landing.



The movie concludes with a lunar sunrise.



The Blue Ghost mission is part of the Commercial Lunar Surface Services (CLPS) program, which will load NASA's scientific instruments onto privately-owned lunar landers, with the ultimate goal of providing cost-effective data collection ahead of the Artemis program, which aims to land a second manned spacecraft on the Moon.

The aircraft is 2 meters tall and 3.5 meters wide, and is named after

the blue ghost firefly (Phausis reticulata), a species of firefly that lives in the United States.



Carrying 10 scientific experiment equipment entrusted to it by NASA, Blue Ghost departed Earth on January 15, 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with the lunar lander 'Resilience' developed by Japanese space venture ispace .

After landing on the Mare Perilous on the moon, Blue Ghost will carry out its mission for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks, until the sun sets and its solar panels stop generating electricity.

The final few days of the mission are expected to be particularly memorable for many people, with plans to take high-resolution images of a total solar eclipse on March 14, when the Earth will block the Sun over the lunar horizon, and on March 16, to photograph a lunar sunset and capture the mysterious sight of lunar dust floating in the air due to the influence of the Sun.

A wave of private space exploration is sweeping the moon, and Intuitive Machines, which successfully completed the first private lunar landing in history in 2024, plans to land its second lunar lander, Athena , near the south pole of the moon on March 6 if all goes well. In addition, ispace has announced that Resilience, launched together with Blue Ghost, will land on the moon's icy ocean on June 6.

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