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Odysseus will pave the way for American astronauts to return to Earth's neighbour later this decade. Odysseus touched down near the lunar south pole Thursday at 2323 GMT. It was a nail-biting final descent as flight controllers had to switch to an experimental landing system and took several minutes to establish radio contact with the lander after it came to rest.
NASA, with several research instruments aboard the vehicle, hailed the landing as a major achievement in its goal of sending a squad of commercially flown spacecraft on scientific scouting missions to the moon ahead of a planned return of astronauts there later this decade
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander became the first commercial spacecraft to survive a trip to the moon's surface — but in what condition?
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it […]
The Odysseus mission marks the first controlled descent to the moon's surface by a US spaceship since Apollo 17 in 1972