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Moon Stock Plummets After Odysseus Lunar Lander Tips Over. NASA Calls Landing a Success.
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| February 24, 2024
| Al Root
Posted on 02/25/2024 12:09:42 PM PST by DoodleBob
Stock in Intuitive Machines sharply dropped in after-hours trading Friday after the company’s Odyessus lunar lander tipped over when it landed on the moon’s surface. The extreme stock move shows just how hard it is to trade events that will move a small capitalization stock.
Intuitive and NASA held a news conference on Friday evening. The lander “is stable, near or at the intended landing site,” said Intuitive CEO Steve Altemus. One hiccup though—the lander is on its side.
Altemus said the craft was going 25,000 miles an hour in orbit and landed at about 6 miles an hour, with a horizontal speed of about 2 miles an hour—a comfortable walking pace. The company believes one of the lander’s feet caught on something on the way down, causing it to trip.
NASA’s associate administrator for space technology, Dr. Prasun Desai, still called the landing a success.“Congratulations to the Intuitive machines. An amazing successful landing,” he said.
Indeed, the spacecraft’s journey marked the first soft landing on the moon for a U.S. entity in some 50 years. What’s more, Odysseus landed on the moon autonomously—the first-ever such landing for an American company.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: houston; intuitivemachines; japan; letmuskdoit; moon; nasa; odyessus; slim; texas; themoon; unnngh
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:09:42 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
To: DoodleBob
I got this mental image of Elon Musk stomping around pissed off that his “peers” cant do this right. Prolly saying something like “people are comparing these clowns to me”!! Would be cool if he just threw something together..some lunar mission...maybe land a Tesla on the surface...I’d love to see that!
To: know.your.why
NASA Calls Landing a Success.
That's the modern day version of:
"Failure is not an option."
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:19:11 PM PST
by
adorno
(CCH)
To: know.your.why
Would be cool if he just threw something together..some lunar mission...maybe land a Tesla on the surface...I’d love to see that! Great idea.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:19:34 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I identify as a Christian Nationalist. Joe Biden hates me.)
To: know.your.why
But it worked fine in the simulator!!!
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:19:43 PM PST
by
Safrguns
To: DoodleBob
The Eagle has come to a stop, on it’s side....
One small step for man, one very public crash for mankind.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:20:51 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(16 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
To: know.your.why
It’s just pining for the fjords.........
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:21:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: DoodleBob
They showed a graphic of a perfect landing on fake news and didn’t even mention it fell over. I think it was SeeBS
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:21:27 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: know.your.why
..maybe land a Tesla on the surface
That would be a 'short-range mission", with an explosive end.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:22:16 PM PST
by
adorno
(CCH)
To: DoodleBob
And the Japanese lander just did the same thing.
The Man In The Moon is laughing at us!
To: DoodleBob
The lander “is stable, near or at the intended landing site,” said Intuitive CEO Steve Altemus. One hiccup though—the lander is on its side.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:24:03 PM PST
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: DoodleBob
All in accordance with Fudd’s Law: If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:25:01 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: DoodleBob
Not a landing.
An arrival.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:27:24 PM PST
by
linMcHlp
To: DoodleBob
Next time try a hamster ball where there is no preferred ‘up’.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:28:06 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Red Badger
This, is an ex-space craft.
To boldly trip and fall where only the Japanese have tripped before.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:29:05 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
To: DoodleBob
This is like Joe’s “successful” management of the country that we keep hearing about.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:33:43 PM PST
by
Deo volente
("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
To: DoodleBob
I’m no expert on orbital mechanics, but escape velocity from Earth is
25,000 mph. The lander was orbiting a smaller body- the Moon. How could the lander be traveling at 25,000 mph in orbit around the Moon and still be orbiting ?
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:35:46 PM PST
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: DoodleBob
Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 72 with the computing power of a Commodore 64. Maybe the lander needs a pilot.
To: DoodleBob
I am a reasonably experienced mechanical Engineer - and I can't help but wonder which part of that program Management team designed that tall, thin lander with that narrow and thin landing gear lashup. Has no one ever looked at the Moon's surface and not noticed it's irregularity? Have none of their engineer's learned about Centers of Gravity?
I mean, it got there and it hit its aimpoint, more or less and it didn't smash into the surface - but the simplest part of the mission - to land right side up - failed?
Did DEI strike again?
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:37:50 PM PST
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: DoodleBob
People don’t understand. The Moon is possessed by an evil spirit. And the spirit will very briefly laugh when it does an evil thing. Here’s a photo I was lucky enough to get last Friday evening.
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posted on
02/25/2024 12:38:03 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
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