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NASA's partnership with the private sector achieved a major milestone with the successful lunar landing of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. The spacecraft touched down safely early Sunday, marking the first commercial spacecraft to achieve this feat after previous attempts by others resulted in crashes or tip-overs. Blue Ghost is carrying several experiments for NASA as part of a broader initiative to utilize private companies for lunar deliveries in support of the Artemis program. This mission is designed to scout the lunar surface, evaluate the radiation environment, and develop solutions for navigating the challenging lunar dust.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope also achieved a significant accomplishment, completing the largest galactic mosaic of all-time, imaging the full extent of the Andromeda galaxy. This mosaic consists of over 600 overlapping snapshots, creating a 2.5+ billion pixel image filled with a wealth of astronomical data. Furthermore, NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch this week. SPHEREx will map the entire sky four times over two years to uncover insights into the infant universe, the formation of early galaxies, and the location of building blocks of life in the Milky Way.

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References :

• NASA Science: Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
• PBS NewsHour - The Latest: Blue Ghost lunar landing highlights NASA’s partnership with the private sector

Classification:

• HashTags: #LunarExploration #SpaceMissions #GalacticMapping
• Company: NASA
• Target: Knowledge
• Product: Hubble
• Feature: Exploration
• Type: Research
• Severity: Medium