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lifted off and after 15 minutes of flight, it ejected this peregrine lander, as it's called. you can see a picture of it here in preparation. it's going to take a few weeks for the lander to arrive at the moon and then it will attempt a soft landing, and i put the emphasis on "soft landing," on the 23rd of february. and it's not since this event happened way back in 1972, the apollo 17 mission. you can see gene cernan, the commander of apollo 17. that was the last mission to touch down gently on the surface of the moon from the united states. they haven't attempted it since. they've had a number of probes that have deliberately crashed into the surface of the moon. but there's been no soft landing attempt. and there is this new big effort now to get america back to the moon. it's called artemis, as opposed to apollo. and the mission that we saw take off today is part of that process. the big difference is back then it was all nasa. now nasa are going with commercial