An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas-based Firefly Aerospace only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a feat. Firefly’s two-metre-tall Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon’s near side just after 6.30pm AEDT Sunday. A parade of lunar landers developed by the private-sector have launched this year, part of a convoy of robotic spacecraft that NASA and its partner agencies hope will pave the way for astronauts to return to the moon’s surface later this decade. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Success was…