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We're on the moon,
Mission Control reported ... adding the Every time we go up, we're learning from each other,
It’s just an amazing, amazing achievement. I’m so proud of everyone in this room, because you all had a part in putting this lander on the moon.”
Nicky Fox, another director, said They made it look easy. It's not easy."
Nasa has hailed the achievement, with Joel Kearn, one of the agency's space mission directors, saying There’s five hours at the end of the 14 days where we’ll be performing operations into the lunar night and really test the limits of the system."
Jason Kim, Firefly CEO, told CNN We're hoping to get lower-cost missions at a faster pace, and we just have proof it works,
said NASA's CLPS chief Chris Culbert said Every single thing was clockwork, even when we landed, and then after, we saw everything was stable and upright,
Firefly CEO Jason Kim said on stage at a company watch event in Austin There’s a phenomenon called the lunar horizon glow (scattered light caused by floating electrostatic particles) that only the Apollo 15 and 17 astronauts have seen with their eyes,
We’re using (reaction control system) thrusters that we’ve built, developed in-house, that are designed by the same people that design our rocket engines. That reduces risk,
Several minutes will go by before we share all that information,
With all of our video cameras, we’ll also be able to have data that gets broadcast down to our mission operations center (in minutes),
