Odysseus becomes first US spacecraft to land on moon in over 50 years

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Odysseus is heading for a landing site near Malapert A, an impact crater near the moon's south pole.
NASA describes it like this:

"(A) relatively flat and safe region is within the heavily cratered southern highlands on the side of the Moon visible from Earth."

The space agency said it chose this landing site for Intuitive Machines' first mission because it wanted to learn more about the lunar environment and how communications function in this area.
And there's a key reason why: NASA wants to scout the lunar south pole because the space agency believes it's the best location to set up a future astronaut base.

The US-made Odysseus lunar lander has made a touchdown on the moon, surpassing its final key milestones — and the odds — to become the first commercial spacecraft to accomplish such a feat, but the condition of the lander remains in question.

Intuitive Machines, however, says the mission has been successful.

"I know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface, and we are transmitting," Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus just announced on the webcast. "Welcome to the moon."

Odysseus is the first vehicle launched from the United States to land on the moon’s surface since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

Mission controllers from Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that developed the robotic explorer, confirmed the lander reached the lunar surface Thursday evening.

The uncrewed spacecraft traveled hundreds of thousands of miles from its Florida launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the moon before making its final, perilous swoop to the lunar surface.

 

[Bonesjones]

Article shows what you can do with consumer grade telescopes in 2004, which are far less in power then a research telescope. Here is what a proper research telescope can see from that era: View attachment 5749490

I presented an easy and cheap way to prove your conspiracy otherwise, you just responded like a 63 iq nigger instead.

I'm glad you can see everything so clearly that you don't need giant arrows and labels to identify what you are looking at. Also why did they invert the colors? Let me guess, you can't see it using the naked eye so they used infrared or X-Ray imaging to build the site picture.

Remember when they launched the Hubble telescope only to determine manufacturing flaws made it useless. Then an unknown to before that time was like "we will just give you one of our spares"?

Why won't the government give us pictures of the stars from space? Not composited images, actual photographs.

For all the wonder and awe a clear night with no light pollution instills in people, why does NASA refuse to give that to us. It's all smoke and mirrors and obfuscation, why is that?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Odysseus ain't a good name for a spacecraft or any type of transport. Odysseus couldn't return for about 20 years.

 

[Named User]

Haven't seen Christa McAuliffe lately.

……………. and the others?

it's pretty obvious they were taken at different times in the launch sequence

If they were taken at different times in the launch sequence, in their respective perspectives should be different, e.g. we should see more of the bottom of Columbia compared to Discovery.

 

[BScCollateral]

I still find it bizarre that Russia hasn't had a successful moon mission since the USSR collapsed, officially making their space program worse than fucking Luxembourg's.

You get what you pay for; NASA kept Russia in space by purchasing nseats on Soyuz. NASA didn't pay them to run science missions in deep space.
Russia's done three or four deep space science missions, none successful.

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

I'm gonna steal its robot wife while its away.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You have quite a fanciful imagination, maybe consider a career as a fiction writer?

Thanks. I would consider it if I wasn't such a poorly educated autistic retard.

 

[Fareal]

Well brethren, we did it, we finally found the most retarded comment thread on the Farms ever.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

……………. and the others?

I haven't seen anyone from the Challenger mission alive.

If they were taken at different times in the launch sequence, in their respective perspectives should be different, e.g. we should see more of the bottom of Columbia compared to Discovery.

Not early on, they launch vertically and then gradually enter a gravity turn into orbit. If you look at the first one for Columbia, the control surfaces on the edge of the wing are starting to tip downward more to help pitch the craft into the turn. The others are earlier and don't have that same turn yet, but are all close enough to launch the differences in angle are insignificant.

 

[Unexpected Genitals]

I came to this thread hoping to actually find footage of the landing and all I got is a bunch of hoaxtards sperging out. I want my five minutes back, this is gay.

 

[teriyakiburns]

This is not possible in terms of perspective. Discovery is lower to the ground than the others as we see the scaffolding, yet the perspective is somehow the same.

The perspective is almost the same. All the photographs are taken from the same place at approximately, but not exactly, the same point in the launch. You can see subtle differences in the angle of the tail and the wings that show them to be different.

As an aside, the collage shows just how experimental the shuttle was. All the orbiters are unique in some fashion or other, with different different tail shapes and different fairings, and different tile patterns in various places. Orbiter was a prototype, a testbed and pathfinder for future designs. It was never meant to be a workhorse vessel and the fact that it was driven as hard as one is part of the reason so many mistakes were made in the programme's lifetime.

Anyway...

Odysseus ain't a good name for a spacecraft or any type of transport. Odysseus couldn't return for about 20 years.

In fairness, it isn't likely to be coming home any time soon, either.

 

[mlanguishi]

I came to this thread hoping to actually find footage of the landing and all I got is a bunch of hoaxtards sperging out. I want my five minutes back, this is gay.

Updates, with maybe pictures, in just under 2 hours.

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/intuitive-machines-1-lunar-landing-news-briefing/

 

[Breadbassket]

I am for one very proud that America has put the first vending machine on the moon.

 

[Named User]

I haven't seen anyone from the Challenger mission alive.

Did you actually click and look at this link?

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Did you actually click and look at this link?

They really don't look very similar at all beyond a superficial level. Different nose shapes, different chin shapes, different positioning of the eyes and ears.

What point would there be for doing any of this? I could see something like faking a mission to get a "first" in space exploration (e.g. Moon landing) but there's no benefit to a hoax like this.

On top of that you somehow would have had to keep everyone involved in faking it sworn to complete secrecy for 40 years and completely and perfectly deceive everyone in government and outside of government who investigated the disaster multiple times. And blow up a Space Shuttle anyways to produce the wreckage that was recovered.

 

[Named User]

They really don't look very similar at all beyond a superficial level

Do you really believe that these two people who are both named Michael J. Smith and would be around the same age don’t look very similar?

Do you really believe these two people both named Richard Scobee don’t look very similar as well?

 

[mlanguishi]

I can't believe a moon lander thread as basically turned into..

 

[CockPockets]

Mutts can't have pride in something for five seconds so they have to conceive these crazy plots and stories about how nobody was truthful ever and the world is physically as small as their trailer park

 

[George Lucas]

I can’t wait for the gay overprocessed photos made from sensors not anything like what the rods and cones in our eyes do!

There was a time when NASA was a lot less gay. The Voyager images are reasonably close to true color and the Apollo missions had decent cameras. Compare the original Blue Marble with the modern composite atrocity:




Someone must have complained because they released a new one a few years later:

 

[Bonesjones]

On top of that you somehow would have had to keep everyone involved in faking it sworn to complete secrecy for 40 years and completely and perfectly deceive everyone in government and outside of government who investigated the disaster multiple times. And blow up a Space Shuttle anyways to produce the wreckage that was recovered.

You do know we have literal departments of government that have been kept secret from everyone for decades, right? One I just illustrated earlier as existing that no one outside of it knew about at all. We are very good at keeping secrets when it counts, we have entire classification systems dedicated to it. We have advanced surveillance now that make large scale leaks impossible. You don't even have to perfectly control information or stop leaks at all, you just use your position of authority to say "yeah they are crazy and have nothing to back it up" and that's good enough for you.

Do you think the government gives a shit about blowing up a Shuttle? Or blowing up a building? Or an entire country?

 

[Named User]

Mutts can't have pride in something

Pride in the US government? Glowie, you’re on the wrong site.