On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a Houston company got closer to reaching the moon.
The company, Intuitive Machines, announced that its Odysseus spacecraft had fired its engine for six minutes and 48 seconds, slowing it enough to be pulled by the moon’s gravity into a circular orbit 57 miles above the surface.
On Thursday, it is scheduled to touch down on the moon. If all goes well, it will become the first private spacecraft ever to make a soft landing there and the first American mission to arrive there since Apollo 17 in 1972.
When is the landing and how can I watch it?
Odysseus is expected to land on the lunar surface at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. (Late Wednesday afternoon, Intuitive Machines adjusted the landing time, moving it up by 19 minutes, based on the orbit the spacecraft ended up in.)
Source: www.nytimes.com
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