The second ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone

As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative involving private aerospace companies delivering payloads to the moon’s surface, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s private lunar lander—carrying a drill,

A commercial spacecraft carrying NASA experiments successfully touched down on the moon's surface early Sunday morning, ushering in a new phase of private space exploration.