lunar landing

The crewed, pressurized lunar rover will give astronauts more time to conduct experiments on the moon and the ability to travel farther than ever before.

The latest class of astronauts that graduated from the two-year training program had been selected from a highly competitive pool of about 12,000 applicants, NASA said.

Telemetry from the Nova-C moon lander will end as it conducts a ‘quiet power down,’ Intuitive Machines said.

Intuitive Machines’ uncrewed autonomous lunar lander touched down on the moon’s surface at 6:23 p.m. EST.

Intuitive Machines on Thursday morning updates the expected landing time for the Nova-C lander.

The lunar lander is now closer to the moon than the end-to-end distance driving across Houston, nicknamed ‘Space City,’ according to Intuitive Machines.

The IM-1 mission represents the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years.

Following liftoff, NASA confirmed the spacecraft was stable and receiving solar power.

The second and third missions in the space agency’s Artemis program—which seeks to return Americans to the moon—were each delayed nearly one year.

NASA gives an update about Artemis I—an uncrewed lunar test flight of the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft.