First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface
First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface
First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander touched down on the moon Thursday after a historic, nail-biting descent following a last-minute navigation sensor malfunction, becoming the first U.S.-built spacecraft to stick a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company.
After delaying the final descent by one orbit to press an experimental NASA navigation sensor into service — and to test hurriedly-written software patches to route its data to the lander's flight computer — Odysseus settled to a touchdown at 6:23 p.m. EST near a crater known as Malapert A some 186 miles from the south pole of the moon.
But the spacecraft's condition was not immediately known. Engineers at Intuitive Machines' Nova control center in Houston expected it to take up to two minutes or so to re-establish communications after landing, but the expected signal was not immediately found.
This gives hope that maybe I'll see man step foot on the moon in my lifetime.
Check out the NASA's artemis missions. The goal is to put people back on the moon in 2026.
That's when we'll orbit the moon. 2032 is the earliest we'll step foot.
You're dreaming too small. You're almost definitely gonna live to see humans walk on the moon. And since you couldn't have been born before the early 70s, then it's reasonable that you might live to see civilians on the moon! And you yourself might even wind up in space!
either you are delusional or those are going to be very wealthy civilians
Why tho?
I have a thing for gourmet cheeses