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Watch Intuitive Machines' private Odysseus lander attempt historic moon landing today


The touchdown try is scheduled for 6:24 p.m. ET today (Feb. 22).

After sailing more than 620,000 miles (1,000,000 kilometers), the telephone-booth-sized spacecraft aced maneuvers yesterday (Feb. 21) that put it in a tight circular orbit around the moon a day ahead of its landing. The first was in Oceanus Procellarum, the largest lunar basaltic plain, which is also a potential landing site for the Artemis program, NASA's endeavor to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. "Landing near Malapert A also will help mission planners understand how to communicate and send data back to Earth from a location that is low on the lunar horizon," NASA said in a statement at the time.

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