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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Shaun Wilson

Second-ever privately funded space craft touches down on moon

A landmark moment in private space travel has been reached after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon.

The four-legged spacecraft, roughly the size of a compact car, carried 10 scientific payloads and used 21 thrusters to navigate its way to a landing near a volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, in the northeast of the moon’s Earth-facing side.

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