At 3.34 Eastern on Sunday morning, a squat six and a half foot tall lander plunked

its four legs down on the surface of the moon. A technological feat, only a few have ever achieved.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost became the second privately operated robotic spacecraft to

land softly on the lunar surface, and the first

to do it without complications.

Firefly CEO Jason Kim says not only did the landing go as planned, but so far, all of the

experiments and payloads involved in the 14-day mission are proceeding as anticipated as well.

What we did was we opened up the total available market for every orbit, low-earth orbit,

medium Earth orbit, geosynchronous orbit, since lunar, because our lunar lander is basically a satellite with legs.

So we're able to open up all those opportunities.

And then sticking the landing, there's five countries that have done that successfully.

We're the sixth entity and we're a private company, a commercial company.

So it really shows the rest of the world that, you know, that we're in a near era now.

You know, commercial companies can do these kind of game-changing missions and we could pass the cost and schedule savings on to the customers.

Firefly isn't the only lander on the moon either. It was joined today by another private

spacecraft, Intuitive Machines, Athena Vehicle. As of Thursday afternoon, publicly traded

intuitive machines was confirming its spacecraft had landed, but the state and condition

of it was still being determined after the landing

process took some unexpected turns.

I am wishing them, Godspeed, and everything they're doing is what we're about as well, is

just grow the lunar economy, grow commercial space.

You know, they're just across the street from us.

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