CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—A moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft.
The company’s Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk' SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
A live NASA-SpaceX online video feed showed the two-stage, 25-story rocket roaring off the launch pad and streaking into the dark sky over Florida’s Atlantic coast, trailed by a fiery yellowish plume of exhaust.
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Private US Moon Lander Launched Half Century After Last Apollo Lunar Mission
- by: Reuters
- 2024-02-15
- Source:
The Epoch Times
- 02/15/2024
Lunar by Project Apollo Archive is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Lunar by Project Apollo Archive is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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