section_path: Uncrewed landings/Commercial landings
section_name: Commercial landings
paragraph_text: Commercial landings
  
  Two organizations have attempted but failed to achieve soft landings: Israeli private space agency SpaceIL with their Beresheet spacecraft (2019), and Japanese company ispace 's Hakuto-R Mission 1 (2023).
  
  On 22 February 2024, Intuitive Machine's Odysseus successfully landed on the Moon after taking off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff on 15 February 2024 in a mission between NASA, SpaceX, and Intuitive Machines, marking the United States' first soft unmanned Moon landing in over 50 years. This event marked the first successful landing of a privately owned spacecraft on the Moon.
  
  On 2 March 2025, Firefly Aerospace 's Blue Ghost lunar lander performed the first fully successful commercial Moon landing after softly touching down on the lunar surface in a stable, upright configuration. Firefly then completed more than 14 days of surface operations and over 5 hours of operations into the lunar night - marking the longest commercial operations on the Moon to date. As a part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Firefly's first lunar mission delivered and operated 10 NASA instruments near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium. The mission concluded on 16 March 2025 and Firefly announced it met 100 percent of its mission objectives.