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YES, WE ARE ABOUT TO BE TREATED TO A SECOND LUNAR LANDING IN A WEEK

arstechnica.com4 min read

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It was 18,700 days, or 51 years, between the time when the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon and when Intuitive Machines' Nova-C Odysseus lander did on February 22, 2024. While Intuitive Machines' lander top toppled over, it still completed most of its scientific experiments. Firefly's Blue Ghost stuck its landing last weekend, making it two landings in slightly more than a year. Intuitive Machines plans to send a second Nova-C lander, Athena, to the Moon this afternoon - if successful, that would be three US landers in 377 days.