On Tuesday ispace, a Japanese company, will attempt to land a small spacecraft in Atlas, a crater in the north-eastern part of the Moon’s Earth-facing hemisphere. All previous lunar landings were carried out by governments, so the attempt marks a new way of achieving them. ispace’s ...
For the first time ever, a private company has permission to land on the moon. The U.S. government has officially approved the planned2017 robotic lunar landingof California-based Moon Express, which aims to fly commercial missions to Earth's nearest neighbor and help exploit its resources, co...
The US government just authorized a private company to land on the moonMeghan Bartels
Right now, a privately built spacecraft named Odysseus has just completed its mission to collect scientific data from the moon’s south pole. The lunar lander was created by Texas-based Intuitive Machines, the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon. The firm is one of five...
(1)From the first piece of news, we can know that___.A. Elon Musk is the leader of the news conferenceB. NASA's Apollo landed the moon around 50 years agoC. two people will be sent on a weeklong flight beyond the moonD. SpaceX is a private company built up about 45 years ago...
[02:25.72]Other attempts made it to the moon before wrecking. [02:29.56]An Israeli nonprofit group's lander crashed in 2019. [02:35.60]Last year, a Japanese company saw its lander [02:39.52]crash into the moon followed ...
Intuitive Machines has landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a feat previously only accomplished by national space agencies
The company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 9) that a soft lunar landing would be impossible in light of those issues. Yet on Thursday (Jan. 11), Astrobotic issued its 12th mission update via X, indicating that, despite the crippling propulsion system anomaly, there's some good news. Peregrine...
1. According to the passage, what makes Odysseus's planned Moon landing notable? A. It will be the first ever Moon landing by a private company. B. It is carrying scientific instruments made by NASA. C. It is the first attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the Moon. D. It aims ...
The goal is to get small science and technology experiments to the surface of the moon as soon as possible. The first flight could be next year; 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. "We're going at high speed," said Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA's science...