Moon Stock Plummets After Odysseus Lunar Lander Tips Over. NASA Calls Landing a Success.

Barons via MSN ^ | February 24, 2024 | Al Root

[broken_clock]

[cgbg]

No fatalities is a success.

Lol.

[Chainmail]

"How could the lander be traveling at 25,000 mph in orbit around the Moon and still be orbiting "

Retro rockets.

[al baby]

So is Alice

[al baby]

Retro rockets ?????

[al baby]

4 minutes or so

[Noumenon]

Well at least they’re not recording in portrait mode.

[DoubleNickle]

The spacecraft conducted a 408 second burn of its main engine in order to slow down enough to enter a lunar orbit. More info here: https://spacenews.com/im-1-lander-enters-lunar-orbit/

[outofsalt]

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If you want to maximize the chance that a craft will land on its feet then it should be short and squat rather than tall and thin like Musk’s rockets.

[alexander_busek]

How could the lander be traveling at 25,000 mph in orbit around the Moon and still be orbiting ?

Stupid journalist compressed what should have been several sentences of explanation into a single clause.

Regards,

[sasquatch]

Nasa would claim Challenger was a success since no one on the ground was hit. Hubble was a success since it only took one mission to put glasses on it to correct a mirror ground and polished to the wrong figure. Columbia completed it’s mission. Just had a hard landing.

Need Another Seven Astronauts X 2

[tet68]

If I had money to invest, I’d place it on Intuitive Machines
right now.

[Blood of Tyrants]

A Tesla on the moon for astronauts to drive around in. Cool!

[CivilWarBrewing]

Yeah yeah I could research this, but isn't there a TINY BIT of gravity on the moon (16% of the Earth's gravity)????? If that's the case, WHY IS THIS LANDER SO MUCH TALLER THAN IT IS WIDE?????!!!! Wouldn't this increase the likelihood of it TIPPING OVER as it did?

If I'm totally wrong about this, my apologies but I would like for a smarter FReeper to weigh in on this please!

[Blood of Tyrants]

It wouldn’t, of course. The moon has a much weaker gravitational field and therefore orbital speed around the moon would be much slower.

[cgbg]

You forgot Apollo 1.

That mission was successful because no astronauts were lost in space.

;-)

[sasquatch]

If I recall, 25K is earth escape velocity which is needed to get to the moon.

[WKUHilltopper]

“...near or at the intended landing site...”

Near or at the landing site?? Which is it, Dr Doofus?

“...An amazing successful landing...”

Except it fell over, Dr. Dumbass.

Just typical BS double speak.

[citizen]