India, April 25 -- This year will be a landmark year for lunar exploration, with three moon landings scheduled in quick succession that demonstrate humanity's renewed enchantment with our closest celestial neighbour. This week marks the first of these touchdowns, with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost successfully landing on the lunar surface in Mare Crisium. This milestone is followed by plans for Japan's M2/Resilience mission and Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission before June. These landings signal a new era of lunar exploration driven by private-sector innovation, international collaboration, and an ambitious space programme.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander has achieved a soft landing on Mare Crisium, a vast basaltic plain on the...