Cedar Park company who built lunar experimental equipment land on the moon. We will see the first Lunar sunrise and sunset since Apollo.

https://www.kxan.com/news/science/austin-area-based-firefly-aerospace-successfully-lands-on-moon/

This seems like it should be a bigger story.

With a little help from NASA.

Where are all the pics?

The company is really in little ol' Briggs, Texas. Halfway between Seward Junction and Lampasas on 183.

This is part of Nasa's CLPS program where they're paying private companies to send payloads to the moon.

Intuitive Machines in Houston also has a lander on the way to the moon right now. It landed one last year and will be attempting the southern-most landing ever on the moon looking for water.

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Where are all the pics?

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They just landed 2 hours ago

Firefly has come a long way. Took this shot of their first launch in 2021 from my house that had to be blown up. They were able to fix everything and were successful on either this second or third launch if I recall correctly. They also were awarded and executed victus nox successfully. Pretty impressive for how young a company they are.

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From the SpaceX thread:

Just in, our #GhostRiders downlinked another incredible Moon shot following a successful touchdown! Image shows the Moon's surface and Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view. #BGM1 pic.twitter.com/UIMB0ON3k3

— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) March 2, 2025

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From the SpaceX thread:

Just in, our #GhostRiders downlinked another incredible Moon shot following a successful touchdown! Image shows the Moon's surface and Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view. #BGM1 pic.twitter.com/UIMB0ON3k3

— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) March 2, 2025

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Thanks!!!!

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From the SpaceX thread:

Just in, our #GhostRiders downlinked another incredible Moon shot following a successful touchdown! Image shows the Moon's surface and Earth on the horizon. Blue Ghost's solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) are also in view. #BGM1 pic.twitter.com/UIMB0ON3k3

— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) March 2, 2025

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Since these guys are in Texas, did they film this in the Las Colinas movie studios?

Is this the Nathan Fillion lead Firefly or the Marlene lead Firefly group?

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I mean, didn't we do this one in 1969?

Sorry I'm not excited.

first video is out. we left somebody there last time.

OP...

That's cool as *****

In 69, it had taken a metric F ton of personnel, rooms of computers, and the world's best engineers and astronauts to achieve one of mankind's greatest achievements.

Now, when we hold more computing power than all of the USgovt had , in the palm of our hand so we can post snarky bull**** on "social" media, we've got private citizens, employed by private enterprises, achieving greatness.

Awesome news.

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ts5641 said:

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I mean, didn't we do this one in 1969?

Sorry I'm not excited.

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I bet you're a blast to party with.

What's the return on this investment?

I watched the landing coverage last night. Being a on a shoestring budget, they didn't have live video. It would have required a bigger antenna, transmitter, etc,

There were some bad trolls expecting video like a SpaceX launch. Where's the video? Apollo had landing video in the 60s (it didn't, only after landing and getting set up). The couldn't afford $10 for a GoPro? Enjoying the PS1 simulation graphics.

everybody knows we never really landed on the moon in the 60s.
it was filmed in Elon's basement.

TyHolden said:

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everybody knows we never really landed on the moon in the 60s.
it was filmed in Elon's basement.

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Lunartics.

BrazosDog02 said:

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ts5641 said:

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I mean, didn't we do this one in 1969?

Sorry I'm not excited.

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Considering how far we've regressed on this front I think this is a pretty big deal.

Can hear them testing their rockets from Jarrell!

Did they use their own rocket?