{"id":183719,"date":"2024-02-26T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/private-lunar-lander-sends-back-first-pics-from-its-moon-landing"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:33:59","slug":"private-lunar-lander-sends-back-first-pics-from-its-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/private-lunar-lander-sends-back-first-pics-from-its-moon-landing","title":{"rendered":"Private lunar lander sends back first pics from its moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/private-lunar-lander-sends-back-first-pics-from-its-moon-landing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A privately built spacecraft on the moon has beamed back new photos from the lunar surface, showing the vehicle\u2019s much-celebrated descent and the moments immediately after touchdown when it tipped over on its side.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/moon-landing-odysseus-touches-down-lunar-surface-n1308924\" target=\"_blank\">Odysseus lander<\/a>, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed on the moon on Feb. 22, making history as the first commercial craft to reach the lunar surface and the first U.S. spacecraft on the moon in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, Intuitive Machines said Odysseus had pitched over when it touched down near a crater called Malapert A, close to the moon\u2019s south pole. Company officials said the 14-foot-tall lander was operational but that some of the spacecraft\u2019s antennas were pointing at the ground, limiting its ability to communicate with flight controllers back on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A privately built spacecraft on the moon has beamed back new photos from the lunar surface, showing the vehicle\u2019s much-celebrated descent and the moments immediately after touchdown when it tipped over on its side. The Odysseus lander, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed on the moon on Feb. 22, making history as the first commercial [\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-183719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183719","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=183719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}