Private Company Launches Lunar Lander to the Moon

📆 3/13/2024 1:54 PM
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Intuitive Machines, a private Houston-based company, has successfully launched its first lunar lander, nicknamed Odysseus, to the Moon using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft is expected to touch down near the South Pole of the Moon on 22 February. If successful, it would be the first time a private firm has landed a spacecraft on the Moon.

Intuitive Machines, a private Houston-based company, has launched its first lunar lander to the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was used to launch the spacecraft, nicknamed Odysseus, with the hope that it will touch down near the South Pole of the Moon on 22 February. As Intuitive Machines' craft headed for the Moon, the rocket booster used for launching landed safely back on Earth.

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