{"id":182783,"date":"2024-02-15T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/odysseus-spacecraft-launches-in-bid-for-first-u-s-moon-landing-since-1972"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:22:39","slug":"odysseus-spacecraft-launches-in-bid-for-first-u-s-moon-landing-since-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/odysseus-spacecraft-launches-in-bid-for-first-u-s-moon-landing-since-1972","title":{"rendered":"Odysseus Spacecraft Launches in Bid for First U.S. Moon Landing Since 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/odysseus-spacecraft-launches-in-bid-for-first-u-s-moon-landing-since-1972.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. company\u2019s 14-foot-tall spacecraft began speeding to the moon, where the vehicle is expected to try to make history by pulling off the first-ever commercial lunar landing.<\/p>\n<p>The lander, called Odysseus and developed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, isn\u2019t carrying crew, but rather is ferrying scientific and commercial payloads. It was launched at 1:05 a.m. ET Thursday from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX rocket and later separated from the upper part of that vehicle to start a roughly 239,000-mile journey, according to a livestream.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft had a successful launch and connected to radio communications with the company\u2019s mission operations center in Houston, Intuitive Machines said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. company\u2019s 14-foot-tall spacecraft began speeding to the moon, where the vehicle is expected to try to make history by pulling off the first-ever commercial lunar landing. The lander, called Odysseus and developed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, isn\u2019t carrying crew, but rather is ferrying scientific and commercial payloads. It was launched at 1:05 a.m. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}