2024-03-11 04:06:06
Odysseus landed on the natural satellite after traveling more than a million kilometers since he left our planet.
A US module successfully landed on the Moon after 50 years, as confirmed by NASA.
Odysseus landed on the natural satellite this Thursday, after traveling more than a million kilometers since it left our planet.
According to what is detailed by the US space agency, Odysseus landed automatically in the Malapert A impact crater.
“Welcome to the Moon“said Steve Altemus, executive director of the company that developed the module, Intuitive Machines, after the moon landing, as reported by the international press.
“Houston, Odysseus has found his new home“, responded the company’s chief technology officer, Tim Crain.
First private module to land on the Moon
In this way, the Odysseus module became the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.
NASA director Bill Nelson took the words of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, and said that the arrival of the module to the Moon was about “a great leap for all humanity“.
In this way he referred to the return to the lunar surface of an American module, after the last time it was done within the framework of the Apollo program was the Apollo 17 mission, in 1972.