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Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is a robotic lunar lander developed under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. It is designed to deliver science instruments and technological payloads to the Moon, with missions targeted for 2025. The lander supports NASA's Artemis program by pr...
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Successful commercial lunar lander with NASA payload delivery, notable CLPS achievement though recent reputation still forming.
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The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission utilized the Nova-C class lunar lander, named Odysseus, to successfully soft-land on the Moon on February 22, 2024. Touching down near the Malapert A crater in the lunar south pole region, it became the first American spacecraft to land on the Moon since Apollo 17...
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First US Moon soft landing since Apollo, but tipped-over attitude and partial payload limitations temper score.
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