That lander named Odysseus ... on the surface of the moon, and fly into places that rovers can’t go,” said Trent Martin, Intuitive Machines’ senior vice president for space systems.
While the surface of the Moon is a barren wasteland, there has been quite a bit of activity recently, as the Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on March 2, 2025. Now, sparks have been ...
The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.
The lander's cargo included both NASA and commercial ... not just because the lunar environment is so harsh and exotic, but because we fly so few of them," Metzger says, noting failures are ...
University of Colorado Boulder scientists are participating in five lander missions to the moon in the next few years to ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...