It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...

The mission came a year after the company’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to reach the lunar surface since the end of the Apollo era in 1972. But that spacecraft also tumbled ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...

Intuitive was the first private company to achieve a lunar landing. Its spacecraft Odysseus reached the Moon on 22 February last year. However, the mission was short-lived as the spacecraft landed on ...

A crashed lunar mission accidentally unlocked a new way to hear the universe. From deep space radio waves to Earth’s shimmer, ...

with Earth visible between two of its splayed landing legs -- a fate similar to IM's prior landing with its Odysseus spacecraft in February 2024. "With the direction of the Sun, the orientation of ...