The first images of Blue Ghost are on the lunar surface
NASA has successfully landed its Blue Ghost mission on the Moon, making it the second private mission to land on the Moon after Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus last year. Blue Ghost is a lunar lander designed for human exploration, with a drill and a ‘vac planet’ to scoop the lunar dirt. This is also the first time a private mission has landed on the Moon.
India and Russia have crashed on the moon
India and China on Thursday successfully landed their lunar lander, Luna-25, on the Moon’s south pole. The spacecraft will help India and China to better understand permanently shadowed lunar craters that contain water deposits. India had launched its first Moon mission in 2009 but the mission ended in failure after it failed to land on the lunar surface.