{"id":112552,"date":"2025-10-10T03:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112552\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:42:14","slug":"firefly-blue-ghost-the-best-inventions-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112552\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Blue Ghost: The Best Inventions of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">In March, Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost lander became the first private spacecraft to land successfully on the moon. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/commercial-lunar-payload-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cooperation<\/a> with NASA, Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific instruments, including a laser reflector to measure the moon\u2019s shape and precise distance from Earth. Firefly <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyspace.com\/missions\/blue-ghost-mission-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plans<\/a> to launch another lander next year to the moon\u2019s far side, followed by launches in 2028 and 2029, with the goal of creating a path for humans to return to the lunar surface. \u201cAs more humans return to the moon,\u201d says Firefly CEO Jason Kim, \u201cwe want them to have the supplies they need to sustain life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost lander became the first private spacecraft to land successfully on the moon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[23267,69452,69451,4595,18,23268,19,17,23269,361,133,451,23270,23271],"class_list":{"0":"post-112552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-best-inventions","10":"tag-best-inventions-2025","11":"tag-e-commerce","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-franchise","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-list","17":"tag-magazine","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-special-project","21":"tag-sponsorshipblock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}