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  • Why NASA's First Landing On The Moon in 50 Years Matters - It's Commercial, Cryogenic & Confused

    02/26/2024 5:54:23 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 58 replies
    YouTube ^ | February 24, 2024 | Scott Manley (fly safe)
    Intuitive Machines have successfully soft landed on the Moon, carrying a number of payloads for NASA, this represents a return to the moon for the USA. However far more significantly, it's the first purely commercial lander to land on the surface of the moon, and the first lunar lander to use purely cryogenic propellents for all its deep space maneuvering. Both of these factors are core to NASA's Artemis program, and so seeing success here is important to NASA's plans.However.It's far from a perfect success, because it appears to have fallen over during the landing, and this is limiting the...