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The Japanese Space Agency Resilience (Hakuto-M2) lunar lander and rover and the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander were launched successfully on 15 January 2025 at 06:11 UT (1:11 a.m. EST). For more, see the NASA press release and the ispace news release.

The European Space Agency Bepi-Colombo mission made its sixth Mercury flyby on January 8.

This Day in Planetary and Lunar Exploration History

1930
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, second person on the Moon, born in Montclair, New Jersey.
2024
SLIM spacecraft lands on the Moon, Japan becomes 5th country to achieve lunar landing.

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