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See the Striking New Images From the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander, Now the Second Private Spacecraft to Touch Down on the Moon

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Texas -based Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost landed on the moon on Sunday morning .

It's the second private company's lunar lander to reach the moon.

The spacecraft traveled more than 2.8 million miles from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the lunar surface.

The mission is part of NASA 's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

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