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.

 

[Halfnium Bomb]

they can be broadcast from anywhere

You are a nigger. You are the blackest, niggest, gorilla nigger I have ever had the misfortune of gazing upon. Read a fucking book.

I'm not even upset about the moon landing denialism. I am upset that there are men upon this earth so thoroughly uncurious about the world that they fail to understand even the most basic, century old principles behind the modern world, the very same principles that do allow them to shitpost and post their retarded 'groid ignorance upon the rest of us. No, you cannot just "broadcast from anywhere". You actual fucking monkey.
Fine, give me my tophats.

-- Edit, can't multiquote

"You can shoot a laser at the moon and it'll bounce back."
Have you done it?

This is a good point, all readouts from the lunar retroreflectors have been by government operated observatories. Bear in mind these are real tiny things to aim a laser at, the largest one being about half a square meter in area total, and you have to have a laser powerful enough to pierce through the skies, twice. I bet some enterprising laser autist can figure out a way though.

 

[CHARizard]

So Intuitive Machines stock ended the day at $9.59 at close of market. They did their press release and in the after hours market with the announcement of the tip, stock plummeted. It ended after hours at $6.55.

There’s a lot of retards who bought in around $10 holding the bag right now, will be interesting to see where the stock goes on Monday.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Awesome.. We need to be spending a lot more resources, time and effort on this. It should probably be a full percentage of GDP at the very least. Along with it we should be heavily investing in other related and semi related sciences. (from growing mass crops/food in enclosed spaces, to artificial oxygen generation to name a few)

 

[Pedophobe]

Kool kool, so we're back to where we were 65 years ago?

Yah, 3 cheers all around.

Slightly further ahead since this version doesn't require people on board and all the gross nasty hairy gunk that goes along with that.

In the last few years Israel, Russia, Japan, India, the UAE and two NASA-funded private American firm have all failed in their attempts to soft-land a robot on the Moon so it's obviously not a trivial exercise.

 

[BScCollateral]

In the last few years Israel, Russia, Japan, India, the UAE and two NASA-funded private American firm have all failed in their attempts to soft-land a robot on the Moon so it's obviously not a trivial exercise.

Pretty sure there's only been one failed American private attempt, and the failed Japanese lander was also privately funded. I might be wrong, though.
EDIT: The Israeli attempt was also private.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

I'm not even upset about the moon landing denialism. I am upset that there are men upon this earth so thoroughly uncurious about the world that they fail to understand even the most basic, century old principles behind the modern world, the very same principles that do allow them to shitpost and post their retarded 'groid ignorance upon the rest of us. No, you cannot just "broadcast from anywhere". You actual fucking monkey.

this made me laugh because your entire understanding of the world is "i'll just believe the first thing that my authority figures tell me"

 

[Halfnium Bomb]

"my authority figures tell me"

my nigger in christ you can literally experiment with radio signals for yourself.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

my nigger in christ you can literally experiment with radio signals for yourself.

Do you experiment with radio signals?

 

[Halfnium Bomb]

Do you experiment with radio signals?

Yes. It's all century old tech, you can build your own radio transceiver from scrap electronics parts and you can even use buildings as antennae. It's the coolest shit ever.
Science--real science, not globohomo scientism--is based.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Yes. It's all century old tech, you can build your own radio transceiver from scrap electronics parts and you can even use buildings as antennae. It's the coolest shit ever.

Can you link me to a tutorial?

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

my nigger in christ you can literally experiment with radio signals for yourself.

sure you can. i built a little crappy radio in grade school for a science fair.

but my dear pillowbiting nigger-worshipper, you cant do these experiments in space

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Feds are afraid the moon landing going to be exposed as a hoax aren’t they?

 

[Fascist Kirk]

Maybe because I havn't had cable tv in 20 years I missed it, but this event got very little press from news feeds I follow. Is it because no one cares about space exploration anymore? Or maybe they didn't blast it on the media because of the risk of failure like the Challenger? or because it was faked?

Space could really unite the problems geopolitically and socially if they actually spent the capital.

I am not a space is fake guy, but I can totally understand people thinking it is with how many lies our government has sold the public over the years .....

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

So Intuitive Machines stock ended the day at $9.59 at close of market. They did their press release and in the after hours market with the announcement of the tip, stock plummeted. It ended after hours at $6.55.

There’s a lot of retards who bought in around $10 holding the bag right now, will be interesting to see where the stock goes on Monday.

Well the lander uhh tipped over when landing

It still works thank God but one of its six science modules probably won't work.

 

[BScCollateral]

Well the lander uhh tipped over when landing

I'd never build something that top-heavy in Kerbal Space Program.
The Japanese lander that flipped was a bit different; it was supposed to hand on its tail and roll 90 degrees. Apparently it just kept going.

 

[TenMilesWide]

sure you can. i built a little crappy radio in grade school for a science fair.

but my dear pillowbiting nigger-worshipper, you cant do these experiments in space

point antenna up, radio experiment is now in space. god you're fucking dumb

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

point antenna up, radio experiment is now in space. god you're fucking dumb

um...an antenna pointing up does not mean its in space...

 

[Post Reply]

Furthermore, why did only 4 missions go to the moon, over a course of 5 years, all from the same country, all using the same company and then abruptly stop, while ahead, with no other country even attempting to send a manned craft the moon ever again?

FYI, 9 manned missions went to the moon, with 6 landings. And the Soviet moon program collapsed because they could not make their super heavy N1/L3 launch vehicle reliable.

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Sadly, I don't think that arguing with the moon hoaxers and conspiracy theorists does much good. All of their "just asking questions" have reasonable answers, but in the end they prefer to believe that they have secret knowledge that makes them wiser than the common man.

No amount of argument can change the mind of a guy who has decided that radio waves don't work in space. He didn't come to that belief by rational means, he believes it because he's a retarded contrarian.

 

[Named User]

The glowies are coming out the woodwork on this thread

 

[888Flux]

No, you cannot just "broadcast from anywhere". You actual fucking monkey

Even if the earth was a completely flat plane and there existed a perfectly isotropic antenna there would still be significant path loss due to obstructions such as terrain and buildings. You can use something like the COST Hata model to determine the maximum distance a signal can reach in urban and rural environments.

His mental understanding of radio waves is that they travel in a straight line forever from the point of origin which is absurdly comical. I'd be interested to understand how he thinks something like light works.