Yesterday Firefly successfully got its Blue Ghost lander onto the Moon in this its Earth-facing early dawn. Firefly is a corporation, not a nationstate; Intuitive had landed an earlier vessel, but onto a slope it couldn't handle (I didn't bother blogging this). Blue Ghost by contrast is a full success.
Firefly launched the Ghost on 15 January. A craft being unmanned means it can take longer hauling its way across gravity-wells. I assume Intuitive got enough data it can produce slope-tolerant landers in future... or at least to find better slopes, because its Athena is aiming for the lunar antarctic in the 80s°.
Ultimately we want mass production of cheap landers to get cargo up there for cheap.
Tomorrow Wednesday, the Starship launch 8 will, hopefully, not explode Starship 34. UPDATE 3/6: welp, so much for that...
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