US lands on moon for first time in 52 years with spacecraft the size of a red phone box
Intuitive Machines’s Nova-C Odysseus lander touched down on the Moon at 23.23pm UK time on Thursday.
A private, unmanned spacecraft has landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
Intuitive Machines’s Nova-C Odysseus lander touched down on the Moon at 23.23pm UK time on Thursday.
The £93m landing was announced by Nasa, who took to social media site X, to say “Your order was delivered… to the Moon!”, after the US space agency helped with its landing.
Intuitive Machines said its original laser instrument, which it planned to rely on for guidance during descent stopped working an hour before landing. Nasa stepped in to assist at the last minute, providing a backup instrument.
