Witness St. Charles Inborn makes history on the Mondlanding Live Stream Sunday-Shaw Local

The St. Charles Community and the people around the world can experience history on Sunday as a former D303 student – now rocket scientists – hopes to land a spaceship on the surface of the moon.

Benjamin Tackett from St. Charles could join an exclusive group of Space Explorers if his team can successfully carry out his mission, which ends up on March 2, shortly before 3 a.m.

The landing will be broadcast live on YouTube from 1:30 a.m.

Tackett is one of two system engineers at Blue Ghost Mission 1 of the Space Company Firefly Aerospace based in Texas.

Blue Ghost is an unmanned moonland that left the earth on board 15 on board the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and started the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Blue Ghost spacecraft separated from the SpaceX rocket shortly after entering the orbit and started his solo trip to the moon.

The Tackett and the rest of the Firefly team have managed and operated Mission Control's spaceship in Texas since the start.

Near the end of his 45-day trip, Blue Ghost has been circulating the moon since February 14 and will start his last descent this weekend.

Firefly Aerospace and NASA will stream the landing live on their YouTube channels. Both streams should start on March 2 at 1:30 a.m., whereby the landing season is not estimated earlier than 2:45 a.m.

To see the progress of the mission so far or for live updates with photos and videos from Bord The Lunar Lander, visit the Blue Ghost Mission 1 website.

The mission goal of Blue Ghost is to complete a soft landing, which means that the landing and the payload direct the surface of the moon without causing considerable damage – a performance that was only made a handful of painting in history.

Once on the moon, the Blue Ghost will continue the operations for 14 days (like a full lunar day), in which Firefly can capture the first images of a moon sun below the surface of the moon.

During the moon, the Blue Ghost carries out underground holes, collect samples, measure radiation and measurement and moon dust. There will also be 10 payloads of NASA's science and technology instruments for NASA worth more than 100 million US dollars to the surface.

The Firefly team hopes that the mission will provide critical data about the geophysical properties of the moon and the interaction of the earth and magnetic field on earth.

Blue Ghost is Firefly's first moon mission and it would be the first soft landing, which is carried out by an American retail company, and the 60-day mission would be the longest operation of its kind.

This is not the first time that Tackett works on missions to space. He was part of the Mars missions during his time in Nasa Langley Research Center.

Before he started his career as a rocket scientist, Tackett was a student in District 303, including Fox Ridge Elementary, the Haines Middle School and the St. Charles North High School, where he was a role of honor and a member of the hockey team.

After completing his completion, Tackett acquired a master's degree in aviation and astronautics at Purdue University.