SpaceX successfully launched a lunar lander towards the Moon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, with hopes of achieving the first U.S. moon landing in five decades.
The mission, sponsored by NASA, aims to jumpstart the lunar economy and pave the way for future astronaut missions.
The lander, dispatched by SpaceX’s Falcon rocket, carries experiments to study the lunar surface and improve landing precision for missions to the Moon’s south pole.
If successful, this would mark a significant milestone as no private company has achieved a lunar landing yet.
Intuitive Machines’ co-founder and chief executive Steve Altemus said, “There have been a lot of sleepless nights getting ready for this.”
NASA explained in a statement, “The payloads will collect data on how the plume of engine gasses interacts with the moon’s surface and kicks up lunar dust, investigate radio astronomy and space weather interactions with the lunar surface, test precision landing technologies and measure the quantity of liquid propellant in Nova-C propellant tanks in the zero gravity of space.”
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