{"id":7667,"date":"2025-03-19T18:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2025-03-19T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:17:14","slug":"blue-ghost-lands-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/blue-ghost-lands-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ghost lands on moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Sunday, the \u201cBlue Ghost\u201d lander from Texas startup Firefly Aerospace made a smooth touchdown on the surface of the moon. This is the first time a private company has made a stable and upright moon landing, and its marks the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years. Blue Ghost carried a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA, and has transmitted several photographs from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Lunar lander Blue Ghost lands on the moon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Rrb4XEcslA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the \u201cBlue Ghost\u201d lander from Texas startup Firefly Aerospace made a smooth touchdown on the surface of the moon. This is the first time a private company has made a stable and upright moon landing, and its marks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/blue-ghost-lands-on-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7668,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}