“Today, for the first time in more than a half-century, the U.S. has returned to the moon,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a video message just after the confirmation of a successful touchdown. “Today, for the first time in the history of humanity, a commercial company, an American company, launched and led the voyage up there. And today is a day that shows the power and promise of NASA’s commercial partnerships.”
The U.S. has returned to the moon after more than half a century
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“What a triumph! … This feat is a giant leap forward for all of humanity,” he concluded.
It was a nail-biting wait until a communications antenna in the United Kingdom finally detected a weak signal, confirming that the spacecraft had indeed survived the lunar landing.
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“After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface,” Intuitive Machines said in anupdateon social media.
“What we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the moon, and we are transmitting,” Mission Director Tim Crain told the flight control team. “So congratulations, IM team! We’ll see how much more we can get from that.”
This is the first time a privately developed spacecraft has achieved a soft landing on the moon
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