Firefly Aerospace successfully completed its mission of sending its lunar lander, Blue Ghost, to the moon. You can find out everything you need to know about the company, the mission, and what Blue Ghost took with it to the moon.

Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ambitious propulsion technology startup, Ad Astra Rocket Co., in the Houston area.

Firefly Aerospace released video Tuesday showing the historic touchdown of its Blue Ghost lunar lander. The Cedar Park, Texas-based commercial company was making its first trip to the moon with help from NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

Since launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 15, the Blue Ghost spacecraft had performed almost flawlessly.

The selection is part of NASA's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to make fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity awards during VADR's five-year ordering period, with a maximum total value of $300 million across all contracts.

The latest, Athena from Houston-based Intuitive Machines, is targeting a 7:17 p.m. launch Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A. It would join two commercial