Category: Lunar Landing

WATCH REPLAY: Intuitive Machines-1 Safely Touches Down on Lunar Surface, First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

Engineers had to deal with navigation issues, but accomplished the first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years. The Odysseus lunar lander is upright and starting to send data, according to Intuitive Machines. […]

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WATCH LIVE! Intuitive Machines-1 Lunar Landing Scheduled for 6:24 p.m., First Moon Landing By American Spacecraft in 50 Years

The first moon landing by an American spacecraft in 50 years is set for 6:24.

Among the items on its lander Odysseus, a 14-foot-tall lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, the IM-1 mission will carry NASA payloads focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies. […]

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