Firefly Aerospace could be valued at as much as $5.5 billion if the IPO prices at the top of the expected range.

The lander, named Odysseus, is the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years, carrying experiments for NASA, the main sponsor.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Odysseus lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 15. It landed in a crater on the moon’s south pole on Feb. 22.

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Of those, only the U.S. has landed people on the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 through 1972. NASA expects to send four astronauts around the moon next year.

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The next astronauts to fly to the moon now have a mission patch to represent their journey. NASA debuted the official Artemis 2 insignia, its first emblem for a moon-bound crew in more than 50 years.