Watch Lunar Landing LIVE Tonight 2-22-2024

originally posted by: CarlLaFong
If fully functioning...the lander will be on the moon for 7 days performing experiments and information gathering.

Will it bring back any soil and rocks?

originally posted by: WeMustCare

originally posted by: CarlLaFong
If fully functioning...the lander will be on the moon for 7 days performing experiments and information gathering.

Will it bring back any soil and rocks?

No.

The lander is designed to conduct experiments only.

In 7 days, the Lunar night will fall and the lander's on-board batteries will freeze, ending the mission.

a reply to: Mantiss2021

Oh..the mention of 7 days of experiments made me think it was returning, like in the old days when we weren't so advanced, lol.

We are all very thankful NASA has the time to ‘sanitize’ the images before public view.

Bandwidth my ass.

originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: Mantiss2021

Oh..the mention of 7 days of experiments made me think it was returning, like in the old days when we weren't so advanced, lol.

If the lander was not a privately funded spacecraft, they might have been able to use an RTG as a power source. That could have extended its mission. But the government is a bit edgy about private companies having access to radioactive power sources.


This successful landing kind of blows the "Aliens control the Moon" trope out of the water.

originally posted by: KKLOCO
We are all very thankful NASA has the time to ‘sanitize’ the images before public view.

Bandwidth my ass.

NASA is not operating this mission, it is a private, commercial mission.

NASA is only hitchhiking a ride for one of its experiments.

First released photo of landing area:

static.wixstatic.com...

a reply to: CarlLaFong

Apparently, they also took some great images of Earth on the way to the moon.

a reply to: andy06shake

Hopefully, we'll see the new photos from the lander today.

a reply to: CarlLaFong



Here is one.

Hopefully, more to come.


abcnews.go.com...

originally posted by: Mantiss2021

originally posted by: KKLOCO
We are all very thankful NASA has the time to ‘sanitize’ the images before public view.

Bandwidth my ass.

NASA is not operating this mission, it is a private, commercial mission.

NASA is only hitchhiking a ride for one of its experiments.

Yes, but they are there. Just like big brother.

Apparently it fell on it's side during the automated landing. I felt the four landing legs where not wide enough for the top heavy lander, even though the low gravity of the moon there is still gravity and top heaviness.

It's functionality is very limited now. Basically it failed and now their stock is showing it.
Personally the original 1969 Estes Model Rockets Mars Lander would be more suited.

Funny too cause I just received a Estes Mars Lander in the mail today. It's the holy grail of model rocketry.

This is not my photo btw.


Here's mine;

a reply to: CataclysmicRockets
Apparently, it's leaning against a rock.

The chief executive officer of Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which built and flew the lander, said the vehicle is believed to have caught one of its six landing feet on the lunar surface during its final descent and tipped over, coming to rest propped up sideways on a rock.

Still, CEO Stephen Altemus said Odysseus "is stable near or at our intended landing site" near a crater called Malapert A in the region of the moon's south pole.

"We do have communications with the lander" and sending commands to the vehicle, Altemus said, adding that teams were working to obtain the first photo images from the lunar surface at the landing site.

A brief update on the mission's status posted to the company's website earlier on Friday described Odysseus "alive and well."

news.yahoo.com...

originally posted by: KKLOCO

originally posted by: Mantiss2021

originally posted by: KKLOCO
We are all very thankful NASA has the time to ‘sanitize’ the images before public view.

Bandwidth my ass.

NASA is not operating this mission, it is a private, commercial mission.

NASA is only hitchhiking a ride for one of its experiments.

Yes, but they are there. Just like big brother.

NASA didn't hitchhike they paid big bucks for the ride, not a big brother move rather a good business move by the private company with NASA being it's main customer for this landing.

www.timescolonist.com... 6#:~:text=With%20Thursday's%20touchdown%2C%20Intuitive%20Machines,whose%20experiments%20were%20on%20board.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander didn't deploy camera during historic descent

Sorry, space fans: We won't be getting ground-level views of the first moon landing by an American spacecraft since the Apollo era.

www.space.com...

a reply to: andy06shake
Wow Australia has gotten big. Nearly a quarter of the size of the globe !

a reply to: Lambros

Wow Australia has gotten big.

In a word "perspective".

Nearly a quarter of the size of the globe !

You get that our Earth is not a flat disc right?

So nowhere near a quarter of the size of the globe in that image or anything reminiscent of the sorts.

It’s still a lot bigger than we normally see on the supposed globe. Any photos from this supposed landing from the moon? Yeah it’s not a flat disc but it’s also not a globe.
a reply to: andy06shake

Its a NASA contract, they have oversight on every aspect of the program. They aren't just tagging along.




NASA is not operating this mission, it is a private, commercial mission.

NASA is only hitchhiking a ride for one of its experiments.