Landing on the Moon again after having done so more than half a century ago is costing a lot. Of the last six attempts, only one – the Indian probe Chandrayaan 3 – was successful. The others, for one reason or another, have not been classified as such. But has the experience really been so … Read more
Odysseus turns off. The long night reaches the lunar south pole and the space module launched by the private company Intuitive Machines runs out of power. Hate, As the company’s employees have named it, it has been the first American arrival on the Moon since the end of the Apollo program in 1972. In addition, … Read more
The return of the United States to the Moon half a century after the Apollo program has been accompanied by a setback. The Odysseus lander fell while landing on the Moon and came to rest on its side. While that didn’t render him completely useless, it has limited his mission. The company Intuitive Machines, which … Read more
The United States has returned to the Moon. More than half a century after the last mission of the Apollo program, an artifact with the Stars and Stripes flag arrived on Earth’s natural satellite on Thursday. He did it with the help of a private company, Intuitive Machines, the first to achieve the milestone of … Read more
“Odysseus “It’s alive and well.” The company Intuitive Machines launched that message this Friday, but the need to insist on it and the lack of photographs and other evidence about the state of the lander indicated that something was not quite right. Finally, the company’s CEO, Steve Altemus, has admitted that the device “caught its … Read more
The Homeric hero Odysseus took 10 years to return from Troy to his kingdom in Ithaca. It took NASA more than 50 years to send its own “Odysseus” to the Moon. The eponymous spacecraft became the first to be launched from American soil, and managed to find itself on the surface of the Moon, after … Read more