Out of This World!

This week, Scott's speaking with Robert "Robby" Ainsworth, Lawrenceville, GA native and Collins Hill High School and Georgia Tech graduate about his role as an engineer on the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander project for Firefly Aerospace. On March 2, Firefly pulled off the first-ever fully successful moon landing for a commercial company as part of CLIPS, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program at NASA. The Blue Ghost lander is still working away, gathering data through ten different payloads to add to the body of knowledge for future landings and even further human exploration. There is some time pressure: the lander was designed to work for one lunar day, which is fourteen earth days, before darkness takes over in mid-March and the batteries drain. In this story, listen for the cool connection between the surface of the moon a quarter million miles away and the WSB Radio studios in midtown Atlanta.