A four-legged robot from Texas landed squarely on the Moon on 2 March, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to execute a lunar landing without falling over or crashing. The lander, known as Blue Ghost and built by Firefly Aerospace, based in Cedar Park, Texas, aims to spend two weeks conducting science experiments provided by NASA. Blue Ghost touched down in the Mare Crisium region of the Moon at 2.34 a.m. Texas time. 'We're on the Moon again,' said Vanessa Wyche, the acting associate administrator of NASA in Washington, DC, at a jubilant post-landing press conference. Other companies have tried to land on the Moon before, but their craft have been lost in space or crashed while attempting to touch down. Last year, the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines managed to land its Odysseus spacecraft, but it hit the ground so hard that it broke a leg and tipped over on its side. After launching on 15 January, Blue Ghost appears to have pulled off the complex sequence of autonomous...
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