Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports the total success on the Moon for the private enterprise Firefly with its Blue Ghost lander. More.

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports the total success on the Moon for the private enterprise Firefly with its Blue Ghost lander. More.1951

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0:00.0	This is John Batchel, a conversation with my good colleague, Bob Zimmerman, behind the black,
0:05.0	about Blue Ghost, the success for a private enterprise, firefly, landing on the moon. It did not survive
0:12.4	the lunar winter. It wasn't the winter, lunar night, lunar winter, wasn't supposed to. Bob
0:19.1	reports success, success, success.
0:21.9	It's good to see more than SpaceX can make a success on the moon.
0:26.2	The Earth-moon system is filling up with Enterprise.
0:30.1	More of this tonight, much more.
0:31.9	Yes, Blue Ghost is Firefly's Lula Land.
0:34.8	It is the first of a bunch of private companies to really successfully
0:40.3	land on the moon, soft land, and actually function on the moon as planned. The fact, the mission
0:45.3	was pretty much 100% successful. As the sun has set on the moon, the firefly has shut down
0:52.3	Blue Ghost because it wasn't designed to survive
0:54.4	the long, two-week-long
0:55.9	lunar night. And so it
0:57.9	were functioned during a full day
1:00.1	on the moon, 14 days,
1:01.9	four of two weeks.
1:03.8	It's 10 science payloads
1:06.3	or research or engineering
1:08.0	payloads from NASA. All functioned,
1:10.3	all did their work, all achieved
1:11.9	their goals 100%.
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