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Our resident science guy Joe Johnson is back with some science stories that caught his eye recently, including the commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments that successfully touched down on the moon’s surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.
Image: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully landed on the Moon at 3:34 a.m. on Sunday, March 2, 2025,. (Credit: Firefly Aerospace)