mark strassmann has the story. >> stuck the landing. >> reporter: the landing flawless. [ cheering ]s stunning. firefly's blue ghost lander casting a shadow across the lunar surface. in the distance, the earth, and all of us, 240,000 miles away. >> i'm so proud of that lander and the team that built it. it's incredible. >> reporter: ray allensworth is space director of firefly aerospace. we first met her and her company's lunar lander three months ago. 6 feet tall, 11 feet wide with four landing legs touching lunar dust. >> they're extended all the way around the lander. >> reporter: launched in january, blue ghost's cameras captured video of its journey from earth to lunar orbit. its mission, deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface for nasa. >> so if we kind of look down, you see over there, you see that spout kind of coming down. >> reporter: i do. >> that's the drill. and it will deploy down and go into the lunar surface. >> reporter: this drill will try to penetrate 9 feet below the surface to measure temperature. another experiment will vacuum up loose lunar rock and dust. >>

here is cbs's mark strassmann. >> stuck the landing. [ cheers and applause ]. >> reporter: the landing pictures stunning. fire flies blue ghost lander casting a shadow across the lunar surface. in the distance, earth and all of us 240,000 miles away. >> i'm so proud of, you know that lander and the team that built it. it's incredible. >> reporter: ray allen's worth is spacecraft program director at fire fly aerospace. >> all right. go ahead. >> we first met her and her company's blue ghost lunar lander three months ago. 6 feet tall, 11 feet wide with four landing legs now touching lunar dust. >> so there are cameras distributed basically all the way around the lander. >> reporter: launched in january, blue ghost cameras captured video of its journey from earth to lunar orbit. its mission deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface for nasa. >> so if we kind of look down, you see over there, you see that spout kind of coming down. >> i do. >> that's the drill. and it will deploy down and go into the lunar surface. >> reporter: this drill will try to penetrate nine feet below the surface t

mark strassmann gives us a look inside mission control. >> we stuck the landing.the moon. >> reporter: the landing? flawless. the first pictures, stunning. firefly's blue ghost lander casting a shadow across the lunar surface, in the distance the earth and all of us 240,000 miles away. >> i'm so proud of that lander and the team that built it. it's incredible. >> reporter: ray allensworth is spacecraft program director. we first met her and her company's blue ghost lunar lander three months ago, six feet tall, 11 feet wide, with four landing legs now touching lunar dust. >> so there are cameras basically distributed all the way around the lander. >> reporter: launched in january, blue ghost's cameras captured its journey from earth to lunar orbit. its mission? deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface for nasa. >> you look down and see the spout kind of coming down? >> reporter: i do. >> that's the drill. it will deploy down and go into the lunar surface. >> reporter: this drill will try to penetrate nine feet below the surface to measure temperature. another expe