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Land Ho! Intuitive Machines' NASA-funded lunar lander, Odysseus, hit some issues during its final approach to the lunar surface: when the sensors it intended to use during its final approach failed, the team opted to use an experimental NASA payload instead. But the gambit appears to have paid off: at about 6:38pm, the livestream reported […]
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Intuitive Machines' privately-owned lander has achieved the remarkable feat of being the first US lander to touch down on the moon's surface in over 50 years, following NASA's Apollo program in 1972.
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in 52 years with help from a $118 million NASA contract.
The lander module of Odysseus, called Nova-C, has become the second one, after Chandrayaan-3 last year, to land in the Moon’s south pole region.
"Houston, Odysseus has found its new home," Intuitive Machines mission director Tim Crain said Thursday after the company's lander became the first American spacecraft...