NASA is making plans to send astronauts to the Moon and then to Mars by 2025 as part of the Artemis mission.
Peregrine 1, the spacecraft sent by the USA 50 years later for a soft landing on the Moon, failed last month.
One day after its launch on January 8, a private company called Astrobotic Technology, which produced the vehicle, announced that there was a ‘fuel leak’ in the spacecraft. The vehicle was then returned and burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA launched for the second time
NASA launched a second spacecraft after the failed space mission last month.
The Moon lander, nicknamed “Odysseus” or simply “Odie”, took off from Kennedy Space Center last week on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
photographed the world
Intuitive Machines, which developed the spacecraft, recently shared the first images taken by its spacecraft.
The Moon landing spacecraft, launched as part of Intuitive Machines’ “IM-1” mission, is expected to enter the Moon’s orbit 24 hours before landing.
Once in the planned orbit, the lunar lander will separate from the rocket and begin its solo mission by accelerating itself towards the lunar surface using an onboard engine.
It will land on the Moon on February 22
Odysseus is expected to spend a little more than a week of free flight in space, while it is scheduled to land on the lunar surface on February 22.
If successful, Odysseus will be the first US spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
2024-02-21 09:52:12
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