The achievement makes Firefly only the second commercial company to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon — and the first to ever do so without a hitch. Last year, Houston-based Intuitive Machines sent a spacecraft to the moon, but it stopped working after landing on its side.

With Blue Ghost, Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful moon landing, the company said Sunday.

Early Sunday morning, Firefly Aerospace became the first private company to successfully land on the moon. The company's Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down up