{"id":34855,"date":"2025-03-03T02:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/us-firm-firefly-aerospace-makes-second-ever-commercial-moon-landing-video\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T02:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:35:28","slug":"us-firm-firefly-aerospace-makes-second-ever-commercial-moon-landing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/us-firm-firefly-aerospace-makes-second-ever-commercial-moon-landing-video\/","title":{"rendered":"US firm Firefly Aerospace makes second-ever commercial moon landing &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The size of a compact car, the four-legged Blue Ghost touched down Sunday near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the north-east corner of the moon&#8217;s Earth-facing side. Flight controllers at Firefly&#8217;s Austin, Texas headquarters watched as Blue Ghost descended toward the moon&#8217;s surface at 2 miles per hour, confirming on a live stream that the spacecraft had entered lunar gravity<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/mar\/02\/private-firefly-aerospace-spacecraft-blue-ghost-makes-successful-upright-moon-landing\">Private spacecraft Blue Ghost makes successful upright moon landing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/video\/2025\/mar\/03\/us-firm-firefly-aerospace-makes-second-ever-commercial-moon-landing-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The size of a compact car, the four-legged Blue Ghost touched down Sunday near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the north-east corner of the moon&#8217;s Earth-facing side. Flight controllers at Firefly&#8217;s Austin, Texas headquarters watched as Blue Ghost descended toward the moon&#8217;s surface at 2 miles per hour, confirming &#8230; <a title=\"US firm Firefly Aerospace makes second-ever commercial moon landing &#8211; video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/us-firm-firefly-aerospace-makes-second-ever-commercial-moon-landing-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US firm Firefly Aerospace makes second-ever commercial moon landing &#8211; video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}