{"id":210555,"date":"2025-04-04T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/artemis-2-0-a-model-for-really-winning-the-new-moon-race"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:45:01","slug":"artemis-2-0-a-model-for-really-winning-the-new-moon-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/artemis-2-0-a-model-for-really-winning-the-new-moon-race","title":{"rendered":"Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artemis-2-0-a-model-for-really-winning-the-new-moon-race2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit. And that is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>First came Israel\u2019s Beresheet, which crashed on the lunar surface in 2019. Next was Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine, which suffered an anomaly and was ordered to burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere in early 2024. Then, Intuitive Machines\u2019 Odysseus became the first functioning private vehicle to land on the moon \u2014 though it landed harder than expected and didn\u2019t live as long as planned. The company tried again with Athena earlier this month, which touched down on its side but still completed key mission objectives before running out of power. Finally, Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost crossed the finish line with a fully successful landing \u2014 alive, transmitting and delivering incredible images and other results.<\/p>\n<p>And this is just the beginning. Soon, the U.S.-Japanese iSpace team will attempt its own touchdown, marking yet another milestone in what is quickly evolving into a true private-sector space race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon, with one more lost in Earth orbit. And that is incredible. First came Israel\u2019s Beresheet, which crashed on the lunar surface in 2019. Next was Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine, which suffered an anomaly and was ordered to burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere in early 2024. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210555\/revisions\/210559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}