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Intuitive Machines’ first lander, called Odysseus, softly touched down on the south pole region of the moon around 5:23 p.m. Central Time on Thursday, bringing to a close an eight-day journey and years of hard work. The new funding will help the company double its software and automation teams, break ground on a second factory in the third quarter and much, much more. The spacecraft (along with its twin, Mariner 7, which launched a month later) captured data on Mars’ atmosphere and surface, and relayed dozens of photographs back to Earth.
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