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The Odysseus private moon lander from Intuitive Machines launched earlier this week is set to attempt a landing on the moon at 6:24 Eastern time. The unmanned craft carries several experiments for NASA and will land near the moon's south pole. Live coverage HERE
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Bottom of the Moon = Fromunda Cheese, NASA experiment to analyze for bacteria
(apologies Rocky, thinking about the wives tail that moon is made from cheese.........)
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Was not up to speed on this, but it was a cinch NASA wasn’t driving the bus
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You'd be correct. Private company built it, SpaceX launched it. IM allowed NASA to buy space for some experiments (and charged them enough to just about pay for the whole deal.)
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RockyRaab: Thanks for the heads up - link says just over and hour now til touchdown.
Thanks again.
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At this point, I would prefer it if they would focus on arming systems that could orbit the earth with laser technology that can take out all hostile orbiting spacecraft and systems designed to end our way of life and that will put us back into the stone age, make us defenseless and unable to communicate!
Long OVERDUE IMHO.
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Nobody is going to the fuggin moon.
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Nobody is going to the fuggin moon. Correct. No body. It's unmanned.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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From what I'm listening to, it sounds like they believe it did but have no communications, yet?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Nobody is going to the fuggin moon. Correct. No body. It's unmanned. Thats the first time this lunatic idiot poster might be correct in his life.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Looks like they confirmed the landing.
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When do we see images from the lander?
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It has landed and they are monitoring a transmission from the craft. They say it's a weak signal, but no one seems concerned about that that I can tell.
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Standing by to hear if ET calls home.
They did some truly remarkable engineering in the final two hours. When the (I assume) radar altimeter that tells them how far they are from the surface failed, they somehow re-jiggered two lasers aboard to do the same job. In less than an hour.
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A manned mission is impossible, due to the Van Halen radiation belt.  ![[Linked Image from faroutmagazine.co.uk]](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/static/uploads/1/2023/09/Van-Halen-Sammy-Hagar-1990s-Far-Out-Magazine-F.jpg)
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Looks like they confirmed the landing. That's what I'd like to know. How it is that over 50 years after we watched the Eagle land on TV we can't see what's happening with this thing...who knows. Maybe they're using Radio Shack walkie talkies ort something.
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SUCCESS!
TRH, your belief exceeds your knowledge.
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Anticlimactic... saying images would be coming later. Also saying only 1 of the 4 antennas are working??
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Looks like they confirmed the landing. That's what I'd like to know. How it is that over 50 years after we watched the Eagle land on TV we can't see what's happening with this thing...who knows. Maybe they're using Radio Shack walkie talkies ort something. I remember seeing all that live on TV, as it happened. I guess our technology was better back then.
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