CEDAR PARK, Texas -- Responsive space service company Firefly Aerospace announced Sunday that its Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface in an upright, stable configuration on the company's first attempt.

According to a recent press release, Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 (named Ghost Riders in the Sky) is the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful soft-landing on the moon.

Blue Ghost completed the precision landing in Mare Crisium at 2:34 a.m. Sunday, carrying 10 NASA instruments. It touched down within its 100-meter landing target next to a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille.

Inertial readings confirmed the lander as being upright in a stable configuration. Following the touchdown, Firefly has been successfully commanding and communicating with the lander from its Mission Operations Center in Cedar Park.

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Blue Ghost will begin its surface operations and support several NASA science and technology demonstrations over the course of the next 14 days, which is equivalent to a full lunar day. The surface operations include lunar subsurface drilling, sample collection, X-ray imaging, and dust mitigation experiments.

On March 14th, Firefly expects to capture imagery of a total eclipse when the Earth blocks the sun above the moon's horizon. Blue Ghost plans to capture the lunar sunset on March 16th, providing data on how lunar dust levitates due to solar influences and creates a lunar horizon glow.

Following this sunset, Blue Ghost will operate several hours into the lunar night and continue to capture imagery that observes how levitating dust behavior changes after the sunset.

Throughout its 45-day journey to the moon, Blue Ghost traveled more than 2.8 million miles, downlinked more than 27 GB of data, and supported several payload science operations.