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The lander, built by Intuitive Machines, touched down on the lunar surface at around 6:24 p.m. ET, overcoming a late-stage glitch with its onboard laser instruments.
It’s not very reassuring that the last attempt crashed and burned, then NASA had to come in with the save on the landing for this one (the lander’s laser landing guidance failed, and NASA jumped in with “don’t worry, we brought one too just in case”
It’s not very reassuring that the last attempt crashed and burned, then NASA had to come in with the save on the landing for this one (the lander’s laser landing guidance failed, and NASA jumped in with “don’t worry, we brought one too just in case”
It’s probably a joint effort anyway, they almost always are.
Their lasers failed because they forgot to turn them on (physical switch before launch)… Unbelievable.