NASA's partnership with the private sector took another key step forward this weekend with a successful moon landing.

Y'all stuck to land in. We're on the moon.

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander, measuring only about 6 by 11 feet, stuck the landing safely early Sunday, making it the first commercial spacecraft to do so

after others tried but crashed or tipped over once they got to the moon. Blue Ghost is built by

the private company Firefly Aerospace. It's carrying a number of experiments for NASA and is

part of a larger effort to have private companies make deliveries for

larger missions. Miles O'Brien joins us now. Miles, it's always great to see you. So what is the

significance of this blue ghost landing? Well, Jeff, it's a big accomplishment for a small private

enterprise to land on the moon. This is not easy stuff, as they say, rocket science is hard.

This is part of the overall Artemis program and is truly a highlight in a program which is

facing a lot of trouble. Artemis, of course, is the return to the moon campaign over several

years. These missions, and this is one of about 11 or so in the coming

years, are designed to scout out the surface, determine the radiation environment, try to figure

out what to do about that difficult lunar dust, which can be very sticky and sharp, and also learn how to navigate and land successfully.

They were able, interestingly, to use the Earth-based GPS system to get a fix.

So that actually portends well for navigating in the future.

So a glimmer of hope in an otherwise troubled program.

A glimmer of hope, indeed. How program. A glimmer of hope indeed.

How much of a boost is this for Artemis?

Well, it helps, and it puts Artemis in people's minds.

But at the center of Artemis is a giant, what some might call, white elephant of a rocket.

It's now coming in at about $90 billion.

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