Posted on 02/22/2024 4:20:50 PM PST by Red Badger
An unmanned, robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company landed on the moon Thursday evening.
“We can confirm, without a doubt, that our equipment is on the surface of the moon,” said Stephen Altemus, CEO of Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that operated the Odysseus spacecraft. “Welcome to the moon.”
As it approached the surface of the moon, Odysseus lost contact with NASA, resulting in several anxious minutes for those who worked on the joint project. But after approximately 15 minutes of searching, officials confirmed that they were once again receiving signals from the spacecraft.
“A commercial lander named Odysseus, powered by a company called Intuitive Machines, launched up on a Space X rocket, carrying a bounty of NASA scientific instruments and bearing the dream of a new adventure, a new adventure in science, innovation and American leadership, well, all of that aced the landing of a lifetime,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said after contact had been reestablished. “Today for the first time in more than a half century, the U.S. has returned to the moon.”
Altemus had estimated that Odysseus had an 80% chance of successfully landing on the moon, citing previous failed attempts as an advantage. “We’ve stood on the shoulders of everybody who’s tried before us,” Altemus said.
It was the first American mission to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and the first private spacecraft ever to make a soft landing there.
While it was a private mission, NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to deliver six instruments to the moon. And the U.S. space agency provided streaming video of the landing.
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Were the rockets fake? Did we have men orbit earth? Did men orbit moon? Where did real end and fake begin? Did men get scooped out of ocean by fake ships and crew? Where did the men hide while they were supposed to be on route to moon? Did all the radio receivers throughout the world in on fake too?
Is the US lander going to claim up the crash site of the Indian lander?
All your questions and so many more can be answered here:
https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm
But—you have to do the work.
Nothing in life is free.
The old Soviet Union sent many missions to the moon. Lots of successful landings including a lunar rover!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1
The James Webb Space Telescope is a NASA spacecraft and telescope.
It’s changing everything in astronomy and physics, showing what we thought we knew, was WRONG. Knowledge like this is priceless. First to fly an aircraft on another planet, ho humm, who cares right? Lands a probe on a spinning, rotating asteroid and then retrieves a sample and returns to earth. Who gives a damn? Sportsball is on.
It’s a Herculean task to have created such a wonderful tool, worth every damn penny. Some of us are actually curious about the universe around us.
When the agency doesn’t have to dance to the idiots in charge, it can do groundbreaking science. Unfortunately, it gets funding slashed all the time because politicians want to give payments to the useless or think it’s unimportant. Makes me want to cheer on an asteroid. Maybe the next dominant species won’t be so damn proud of being ignorant.
Geez, can’t you just tell me why the Soviets went along with it?
A full moon is a terrible time to conduct earth-to-moon communications. Every Apollo mission was on the moon near first or last quarter.
Radio noise from the sun becomes overbearing at a full moon and new moon.
In your world, is the earth flat or a globe?
Sure they did...Was Stanley Kubric directing again?
Has anyone here ‘SEEN” any video from this supposed landing today. From that detached video camera we’ve heard about ??
Set for movie Capricorn One ? Right ?
APOD and science threads on this site quickly evolve into 3rd grade level potty talk humor. It's really bizarre.
There isn’t good enough comm yet to get any data much less video.
“And the U.S. space agency provided streaming video of the landing.”
FALSE
“I was just out looking at the near full moon, and said out loud, “Damn good shot””
Was just out “walking the dog| and thinking the same thing.
Imagine lighting that fuse, standing back, and letting her rip, then two days later hitting that moving target.
It does not matter how much evidence refutes the MLD (moon landing deniers). I have posted much before, but they simply dismiss it. Likely usually relayed to a basic animus against authority in general.
https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-fake-conspiracy-theories
How NASA Worked Around Earth's Radiation Belts to Land ...
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked
Gene Cernan swearing on the Bible that he walked on the Moon
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