萤火虫航天公司的“蓝色幽灵”月球着陆器于3月2日成功在月球着陆，成为首个完全成功的商业月球着陆任务。公司发布了着陆过程的视频，展示了“蓝色幽灵”在月球危海盆地的精确受控下降过程。此次任务由NASA的商业月球有效载荷服务计划资助，携带了多种仪器和实验，旨在为NASA建立永久月球基地做准备。着陆过程极具挑战，因月球几乎没有大气层，着陆器必须精确控制推进器，平稳降落在布满陨石坑的表面。此次成功标志着商业月球探索迈出了重要一步，为未来的载人登月任务奠定了基础。

🚀 **商业登月里程碑**: 萤火虫航天公司的“蓝色幽灵”着陆器成功在月球危海着陆，成为首个完全成功的商业月球着陆任务，标志着商业航天公司在月球探索领域取得了重大突破。

🛰️ **精准着陆技术**: “蓝色幽灵”在下降过程中，通过识别表面危险并选择安全着陆点，实现了精确着陆。视频显示，着陆器在接触月球表面时扬起尘埃，随后可以清晰看到着陆器的影子以及远处的地球，展示了其卓越的着陆控制能力。

🧪 **NASA合作与科学任务**: 此次任务由NASA资助，作为商业月球有效载荷服务计划的一部分，“蓝色幽灵”携带了多种科学仪器和实验，包括耐辐射计算测试和月球土壤采样，为NASA未来在月球建立永久基地做准备。

📅 **后续任务展望**: 在“蓝色幽灵”之后，另一家私营公司Intuitive Machines的着陆器也计划于3月6日登陆月球。NASA计划在2027年中期将宇航员送上月球，探索月球南极的阴影陨石坑，寻找宝贵的水冰资源，进一步推动月球探索的进程。

"Y'all stuck the landing — we're on the moon."

A Firefly Aerospace mission control engineer confirmed a successful lunar touchdown of its pioneering Blue Ghost robotic spacecraft in the early hours of March 2. It was the first fully successful commercial moon landing, and the company has now released footage of the well-controlled decent into Mare Crisium, a lava-covered basin on the moon's near side.

"Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, Blue Ghost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium," the company posted on YouTube. "Our Ghost Riders have since downlinked our landing footage for the world to see — a historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots!"

The video shows different views of the approach during the descent of Blue Ghost, a large, squat spacecraft at 6.6 feet tall and 11.5 feet wide. Just after the 2:05 mark, dust kicks up as the thrusters meet the fine lunar regolith. As the dust settles, you can see Blue Ghost's shadow on the ground, with Earth in the distance, currently some 225,000 miles away.

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The lander, funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, is carrying a suite of instruments and experiments for the space agency as NASA prepares to establish a permanent presence on the moon. This includes radiation-tolerant computing tests and sampling of the moon's soil.

But landing on the moon remains daunting, largely because it's a world with virtually no atmosphere to slow spacecraft down. A craft must plummet to the surface perfectly, as thrusters fire to slow its descent onto a surface teeming with pits and craters. Although Chinese and Indian craft have had recent landing successes, the U.S. commercial spacecraft Odysseus sustained damage while landing awkwardly in 2024. The same year, a Japanese craft landed upside down, on its head.

NASA expects the solar-powered Blue Ghost to now operate and collect science data for two weeks. Another private craft, operated by Intuitive Machines, may soon join Blue Ghost on the lunar surface on March 6.

Crucially, human spaceflight is expected to follow these robotic space missions. NASA currently intends to fly astronauts to the moon in mid-2027, wherein they'll spend a week exploring the dark, shadowy craters of the moon's south pole. They hope to spot rich deposits of invaluable water ice.