Firefly's Blue Ghost lands upright in Mare Crisium, the first fully successful commercial Moon landing

Firefly Aerospace/Blue Ghost

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down upright and stable in Mare Crisium on March 2, 2025, the first fully successful commercial soft landing on the Moon. Within its 100-meter landing target near volcanic feature Mons Latreille, it carried 10 NASA instruments under the CLPS program for a 14-day lunar surface mission.

• Landing: March 2, 2025, 2:34 a.m. CST, Mare Crisium, within 100-meter target next to Mons Latreille.
• First commercial company to achieve fully successful Moon soft landing.
• Payload: 10 NASA CLPS instruments; 14-day surface mission planned.
• Operations: subsurface drilling, sample collection, X-ray imaging, dust mitigation, eclipse/sunset imaging.