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Intuitive Machines has landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface, in a historic first for a private company. Flight controllers confirmed the landing at 5:23 p.m. CST, though the exact condition of the spacecraft is unclear as engineers work to refine their signal with the lander. “What we can confirm without a doubt is that our equipment is on the surface of the moon and we are transmitting,” mission director and Intuitive Machines CTO Tim Crain said. “So congratulations IM team, we’ll see how much more we can get…

 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 had landed upright. But it did not provide additional details, including whether the lander had reached its intended destination near the moon's south pole. The company ended its live webcast soon after identifying a…

The United States has returned to the Moon after over 50 years. At 6:24 pm EST, the robotic Odysseus touched down autonomously on the lunar surface, followed by a tense 13-minute gap as radio communications were established with mission control.Today's landing of the IM-1 mission was the first US lunar lander mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. It also enters the history books as the first lunar landing ever by a privately owned and operated spacecraft.It was also a bit of a nail biter. After the unfortunate end of the…

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The mission, officially known as IM-1, carries scientific cargo to help NASA learn more about the Moon’s surface before NASA’s Artemis program brings people back to the Moon in 2025. It brings a laser retroreflector array to help other spacecraft make precision landings and a radio navigation beacon to provide geolocation data to landers, rovers, and eventually astronauts. If Odysseus does land on the lunar surface, it will be the first privately owned spacecraft to achieve that goal. The Astrobotic Peregrine lander,…

The IM-1 lander "Odysseus" in lunar orbit on Feb. 21, 2024.Intuitive MachinesLunar company Intuitive Machines is going for history on Thursday as it attempts to reach the moon's surface in what would be the first American lunar landing since the Apollo era.Intuitive Machines' mission, known as IM-1, aims to soft land near the moon's south pole at about 6:24 p.m. ET.If successful, the company's Nova-C cargo lander, named "Odysseus" after the mythological Greek hero, would be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the lunar…

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Want to watch as the US has another go on Thursday at the first private Moon landing? NASA and Intuitive Machines have teamed up with a live feed as the robotic lander Odysseus is scheduled to touch down near the lunar south pole at 5.30pm EST.NASA will begin its live coverage of the event from 4pm EST.For more than 60 years, part of the excitement of space missions has been followed along with live broadcasts as crewed and uncrewed spacecraft carried out dramatic missions. In this case, it's the second attempt by the US…

Odysseus snapped a selfie during its journey to the Moon.Photo: Intuitive MachinesAfter an eight-day journey through space, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission is ready to attempt a potentially historic landing on the surface of the Moon. Odysseus will try for a lunar touchdown on Thursday at 5:49 p.m. ET near the Malapert A crater in the Moon’s South Pole region. China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonIntuitive Machines will host a live stream of the landing on its website, and NASA will also air its own live coverage…

Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight went through the petrifying ordeal of flying mid-air in an aircraft with a damaged wing.The Boeing 757-200, which was heading to Boston from San Francisco, made an emergency landing in Denver on Monday before all the 165 passengers were safely put on another flight to their destination.Kevin Clarke, a passenger on the damaged plane, recalled the harrowing moment of looking out the window and seeing parts of the plane’s wing missing.“I immediately opened the window, looked out…