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"Landing is another matter": US spacecraft to attempt moon landing

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Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 9:12am
This image provided by Intuitive Machines shows its Odysseus lunar lander with the Earth in the background on Feb. 16, 2024. Photo / Intuitive Machines via AP
This image provided by Intuitive Machines shows its Odysseus lunar lander with the Earth in the background on Feb. 16, 2024. Photo / Intuitive Machines via AP

"Landing is another matter": US spacecraft to attempt moon landing

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 9:12am

An attempt at the closest ever landing to the Moon's south pole will take place a little later this morning, at NZT 10.30am. 

Robotic spacecraft Odysseus will attempt to be the closest US vehicle ever to the moon's South Pole, and the first privately built spacecraft to land in one piece. 

Private Japanese, U.S, and Israeli crafts have already failed at the feat. 

U.S Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that the landing is no easy task. 

He says the craft has to slow down from more than six-thousand kilometres per hour to one metre per second for a successful touch down. 

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