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The first US moon landing since 1972 will take place today
Houston-based Intuitive Machines prepared Odysseus’ landing site It will be the first U.S.-built spacecraft to land on the moon today, in a thrilling one-hour and 13-minute descent from orbit. moon landing It has been around for over 50 years and is the first time it has been carried out by a private company. A day… Read More »
How to Watch and What to Know?
A view from the Intuitive Machines Odysseus mission in Earth orbit on February 16, 2024. (Intuitive Machines via The New York Times) On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a company in Houston came close to reaching the moon. The Intuitive Machines company announced that the Odysseus spacecraft fired its engine for six… Read More »
How to Watch and What to Know?
On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a company in Houston came close to reaching the moon. The Intuitive Machines company announced that the Odysseus spacecraft fired its engine for six minutes and 48 seconds, slowing down enough to be pulled by the moon’s gravity into a circular orbit 51 miles above the… Read More »
When will Intuitive Machines’ private Odysseus probe land on the moon on February 22? How to watch live
Private company Intuitive Machines may soon make history when its commercial lunar lander Odysseus attempts to land near the moon’s south pole on Thursday, February 22. If successful, the Intuitive Machines lander would be the first private probe to make a soft landing on the moon and the first U.S. landing on the lunar surface… Read More »
SpaceX launches special ‘Odysseus’ lander for Intuitive Machines’ pioneering moon mission (video)
A potentially history-making special lunar mission is underway. Odysseus, the robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida early this morning (February 15). If all goes as planned, Odysseus will land near the Moon’s south pole on February… Read More »
Private sector lander launched on historic lunar mission
Lighting up the deep sky overnight, a Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Florida early Thursday, supporting a commercially built robotic lander flying to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less than eight hours,… Read More »
What time will SpaceX’s Lunar IM-1 lander for Intuitive Machines launch on February 14?
SpaceX will launch a custom-built lunar lander to the moon for the company Intuitive Machines on February 14, and if you want to know where and when it will lift off, we’ve got you covered. The IM-1 mission will launch Intuitive Machines’ first Nova-C spacecraft to the moon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida… Read More »
Houston company aims to return America to the moon surface
SpaceX has prepared a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the Moon, the first targeted landing near the Moon’s south pole, where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to walk within a few years. The flight came just five weeks after another US company’s failed attempt to land… Read More »
Just a month after the failed mission, the US Moon lander is ready for a second attempt
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. After last month’s failed Moon landing mission, NASA is pinning its hopes on a second spacecraft developed by a separate company that would make the first US Moon landing in more than fifty years. The… Read More »