Washington, March 2, 2025 (AFP) - In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon

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2025-03-02

A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon on Sunday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone -- and the first to do so upright. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down shortly after 3:34 am US Eastern Time (0834 GMT) near Mons Latreille, a volcanic formation in Mare Crisium on the Moon's northeastern near side. "Y'all stuck the landing, we're on the Moon," an engineer at mission control in......

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