50 years after the success of the Apollo mission, the US Chandrayaan has once again landed on the lunar surface. But this time, a private organization has conducted this campaign.
The hexagon-shaped robotic spacecraft ‘Odysseus’ landed near the moon’s south pole on Thursday evening local time.
Houston-based space research company Intuitive Machine carried out the mission named ‘IM-1’. Intuitive Machine CEO and co-founder Steve Antemus said they spent many sleepless nights getting the rover ready for the mission. The part of the rover that will go to the surface of the moon, the lander is named ‘Odysseus’ after the hero of Homer’s epic poem ‘The Odyssey’.
NASA, the United States’ space research agency, has funded this lunar mission conducted by commercial spacecraft. This information was given in a joint statement by ‘Intuitive Machine’ and NASA. Intuitive Machine is a Houston-based company
“Run at God’s speed, Odysseus,” said Trent Martin, vice president of Intuitive Machines. Continue to make history.
Another company recently failed in its attempt to land on the moon. The Chandrayaan made by astrobiotic technology fell into the Pacific Ocean after 10 days in space.
In 1969, the United States’ Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time. Then in 1972, NASA conducted the Apollo 17 mission to the moon.
