Firefly's 'Blue Moon' and ispace's 'Resilience' are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.
With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately-developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The U.S.
'We've got experiments that I think are going to help with the establishment of lunar infrastructure that will eventually, hopefully lead to a permanent, significant human presence on the moon,' said Ron Garan, a former space shuttle astronaut and CEO of ispace USA.'We're doing an electrolysis experiment. We're doing a food production experiment. We also have some art installations.
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