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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander made history early Sunday morning as it touched down on the moon’s surface with 10 NASA payloads. At around 3:25 a.m. ET ...

As the 3:17 p.m. ET deadline to land on the moon came and went, mission control center (MCC) members tried to establish communications with the HAKUTO-R lunar lander named RESILIENCE.