The live broadcast on the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) website said Odysseus landed safely in a region of the moon near the south pole using TSi at 2:23 a.m.
The post on NASA's social media account said: “Your order has been delivered to the moon.” While the statement was in use, the spacecraft's landing on the moon was recorded on the account of the company Intuitive Machines with the words “Odysseus has a new home”.
“Today the United States is back on the moon for the first time in more than half a century. “Today is a day that demonstrates the power and promise of NASA’s commercial partnerships,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in the live broadcast. said.
A signal was sent 15 minutes after landing
Odysseus, which began transmitting a weak signal 15 minutes after landing, was the first spacecraft manufactured by a private company to land on the lunar surface in more than 50 years.
With its landing, Odysseus made history as the first private US space probe to land softly on the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
The spacecraft, developed by the US private company Intuitive Machines for landing on the moon as part of the “IM-1” mission, was launched on February 15 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on a Falcon 9 rocket produced by SpaceX.
6 different experiments are carried out
The 4.3-meter-tall six-legged lander made of carbon fiber and titanium carried loads for six different experiments that NASA planned to use as part of the Artemis mission.
NASA had paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to build and fly Odysseus. This was part of their effort to commercialize deliveries to the moon and thus send humans to the moon within a few years.
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