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  1. Feb 22, 2024 · The first U.S. lunar lander since 1972 touches down on the moon. The lander, dubbed Odysseus, is tipped on its side but appears otherwise healthy. The Odysseus moon lander (illustrated) delivered...

  2. Feb 23, 2024 · The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The landing time came and went in...

  3. Feb 23, 2024 · After being launched last week, the lander is aiming to land on the moon's surface on Thursday. Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February...

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    The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." At the time, the United States w...

    At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (1930-) aboard. Armstrong, a 38-year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July...

    There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by. Apollo 13had to abort its lunar landing due to technical difficulties. The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan (1934-2017) and Harrison Schmitt (1935-) of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. The Apollo pro...

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  4. Feb 23, 2024 · Space. First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface. By William Harwood. Updated on: February 22, 2024 / 9:58 PM EST / CBS News.

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  5. Aug 25, 2023 · India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon on Aug. 23. There was no guarantee that the lander would make it in one piece. A previous Indian vehicle crashed in 2019 as it headed to the...

  6. Feb 22, 2024 · Moon landing live updates: Odysseus completes first U.S. lunar landing since 1972 The landing attempt will be livestreamed on NASA TV beginning at 3 p.m. ET. Print

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