This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about private commercial space landing on the moon.

That's right. A probe called Blue Ghost launched on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Taking the long way to the moon. Bob estimates six weeks.

Looking for a moon landing which will win contracts from NASA.

There are others' ambition,

but this one's going to be,

to my memory, first we'll see.

Some have crashed, some have not quite made all the trip.

This one looks good.

Blue Ghost, to land on the moon, we'll have the announcement in the next

days landing in early March.

Here's Bob. More of this tonight.

Well, actually, I've got two different lunar landers on their way to the moon right now,

and Blue Ghost is the first one we're going to talk about.

Blue Ghost was built by the startup Firefly.

It was launched on SpaceX rocket in January.

It's been working its way to the moon slowly, taking about six weeks.

In order to save fuel and save weight. They can do it slowly.

You don't have to put as much fuel or material on the spacecraft.

Save it for science instruments.

And so on February 13th, they successfully completed a long four-minute engine burn to complete

their transfer from Earth to lunar orbit.

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