DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
FOR 1ST TIME IN 50 YEARS, US TRIES FOR MOON LANDING & NAILS IT
- Tonight, NASA and private space company nailed a spacecraft landing of a new robotic vehicle on the Moon. Here's what we know:
- This is the first US lunar landing in 50 years since the Apollo mission
- It's a robotic lander and explorer that's the size of a telephone booth
- The mission is being partnered with Houston-based Intuitive Machines
- Intuitive Machines' landing vehicle is called Odysseus or Odie and it was targeted to land on the icy South Pole of the Moon
- Odie landing safely makes Intuitive Machines the first private company on the Moon
- Odie is a forerunner for NASA'S big Artemis mission to land humans on the Moon
- It carries a camera system called EagleCam to document its descent and a number of experiments to help with future landing missions
- Odie just provided beautiful images of Earth that it took on its way to the Moon
- Lunar landings are difficult but China, Japan and India have had some recent successes with lunar landings and the US just did it too.
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