{"id":183067,"date":"2024-02-19T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/private-lander-odysseus-takes-selfies-with-earth-on-its-way-to-moon"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:40:07","slug":"private-lander-odysseus-takes-selfies-with-earth-on-its-way-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/private-lander-odysseus-takes-selfies-with-earth-on-its-way-to-moon","title":{"rendered":"Private lander Odysseus takes selfies with Earth on its way to Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/private-lander-odysseus-takes-selfies-with-earth-on-its-way-to-moon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Odysseus is one of the first landers to participate in NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which aims to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar surface using commercial partners. The CLPS program is a key component of NASA\u2019s Artemis program, which plans to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon by the end of the 2020s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were captured shortly after separation from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SpaceX<\/a>\u2019s second stage on Intuitive Machines\u2019 first journey to the Moon under <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@NASA<\/a>\u2019s CLPS initiative. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines\/status\/1758899202174685589\/photo\/1\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/9LccL6q5tF\">pic.twitter.com\/9LccL6q5tF<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 Intuitive Machines (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines\">@Int_Machines<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines\/status\/1758899202174685589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Odysseus is <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/what-are-the-six-nasa-instruments-flying-to-moon-on-nova-c-lander\" title=\"carrying six NASA experiments\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">carrying six NASA experiments<\/a> and technology demonstrations, along with six private payloads, on its current IM-1 mission. The lander is expected to touch the moon on February 22, near the lunar equator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odysseus is one of the first landers to participate in NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which aims to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar surface using commercial partners. The CLPS program is a key component of NASA\u2019s Artemis program, which plans to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183067","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}