section_path: Lunar landers/Blue Ghost
section_name: Blue Ghost
paragraph_text: Blue Ghost
  
  Blue Ghost is a class of lunar landers designed at Firefly's Cedar Park facility to meet the updated NASA requirements for a Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) lunar lander. The lander is named after the blue ghost firefly Phausis reticulata.
  
  On January 15, 2025, Blue Ghost M1, the first Firefly lander, launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle and it landed successfully on the Moon on March 2, 2025. The launch was shared with the competing Hakuto-R Mission 2 lunar lander, which failed.
  
  On March 2, 2025, Blue Ghost performed a "picture-perfect landing," making Firefly the first commercial company in history to achieve a successful soft-landing on the Moon.