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6/1/2026, 5:24:57 PM
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A Texas company is teaming up with NASA to help bring Americans back to the moon.
Firefly Aerospace made history last year when its Blue Ghost Lunar lander touched down on the moon, becoming the first private company to achieve that feat.
And now they're celebrating again after securing a $75 million contract with NASA to deliver four drones to the moon.
The drones will survey the Luna surface to help prepare for a permanent human presence.
Jason Kim joins us now. He's the CEO of Firefly Aerospace.
and we covered that previous mission a ton and just the odds that you guys had to defy.
So, congratulations on that and this.
How did you guys react when you found out you were chosen for this?
>> Thanks, Lindsay.
Uh, we were excited. I mean, Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a rich history of doing uh mighty things in space.
And so, to be selected by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and uh support this NASA mission, uh it it puts smiles on all of our faces.
This is a $75 million uh spacecraft.
It's going to carry the four JPL drones to the moon's south pole.
And those drones are going to do incredible missions like uh taking high resolution um imagery of the moon's surface for future landing sites for the Artemis programs when humans step foot on the moon again.
And uh there's going to be uh perimeters that are set up as well to um you know allow for smoother landings of those humans.
Uh so we're just going to learn a lot from this mission.
But uh it's a testament to the Firefly team that successfully landed
Blue Ghost mission one last year and a lot of the components that were successful on that Blue Ghost lander are also on this Electra vehicle.
Uh and so we're really excited about this mission.
Is it already built or do you have some tinkering to do?
>> Well, there's uh one that we're building for our upcoming Blue Ghost Mission 2 uh mission that's going to be launching soon.
Um but you know, we're templating these designs into production lines.
We actually expanded our spacecraft campus here in Cedar Park, Texas by double and we quadrupled our clean room space.
And so now we have uh these uh great capabilities of landers and orbiters that we're productionizing and uh really helping NASA meet their demand for you know the higher frequency of launches and land landers to the moon.
>> Well again congratulations.
We are so excited for you and thank you for taking the time to speak with us.
Come back anytime.
Jason Kim, thanks. Thanks for having me.
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