Intuitive Machines readies for historic Moon landing

Axios ^ | March 06, 2025 | Rebecca Falconer

[Red Badger]

Twice in one week!........................

[FreedomPoster]

Did I somehow miss a mention of the launch vehicle involved?

[FreedomPoster]

As I thought. From an earlier article:

“The lander launched into space from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last week”

So Axios is lying by omission in this article, not wanting to mention SpaceX, one of Elon Musk’s companies.

[aquila48]

Just an innocent oversight, I’m sure.

[MtnClimber]

It is starting to get crowded up there. Before long there will be a rush-hour rover pileup.

[PIF]

StarShip Flight 8 relaunch 5:30CT today.

[1Old Pro]

Like Mt’ Everest in April/May

[enumerated]

Just curious.. when one of our Presidents talks about planting a US flag on the Moon or Mars, are we claiming it as a US territory? I never really thought about the ‘space race’ from that standpoint before.

[rktman]

Elon who? 🚀👍😂

[9YearLurker]

But we landed on and walked about the moon in the 1960s...

[dfwgator]

[SunkenCiv]

An embarrassment of riches, oh, and of NASA. ;^)

Plus, the eighth launch of Starship/Superheavy *may* be today (I haven’t checked since just before bedtime).

[FreedomPoster]

Heh, right!?

I mean, it’s an online article, no newsprint involved. The incremental cost of the electrons is damn near nil, and the line was already written, they just had to cut’n’paste that one in my post from the earlier article.

At this point, I assume enemy action vs. incompetence.

[SemualRoberts]

https://www.youtube.com/live/WGf4aWipxC0?si=Ytr-PdJFdcfKpIqc

Let’s all witness this production or discovery, since it’s live...1130 EST

[BlackbirdSST]

6 minutes and all I have is the countdown. The player has no interaction, no play/pause, nothing. Chat going on and that’s it.

[BlackbirdSST]

The countdown I’m seeing may be the countdown for Live action?

[BlackbirdSST]

That link went live, eta 1130 CT

[SunkenCiv]

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[Magnum44]

I know the one of the founders and GNC lead engineers at Intutive Machines. He used to be a NASA GNC guy, really good.

Hopefully this landing will stick better than the previous one, which was great right up until touchdown and it tipped over.