‘Odie’ lunar mission takes off, aiming for historic US moon landing

Accuweather - Space ^ | Feb 15, 2024 8:11 AM CST | By Jackie Wattles,

[Red Badger]

Odious ping......................

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[No name given]

That’s who I thought of as well.

[bgill]

Dangerous? Because a machine has feelings.

[Red Badger]

I knew someone would!...................

[Red Badger]

Feelings...................
Nothing more than feelings...........

Wo-wo-wo feelings................

[Semper Vigilantis]

Is it going to land at The Sea of Tranquility to settle the Apollo 11 landing controversy?

[Army Air Corps]

Heading to the bark side of the moon. I’ll see myself out...

[1of10]

A lot of trouble for Cheese ... mmmmm .... cheese

[Reynoldo]

no

[Jan_Sobieski]

Interesting that it’s so difficult to land an unmanned drone on the moon now days. It was much easier using 1960s technology…

[Sirius Lee]

All these countries sending robots and probes to the moon and we still can’t get a decent closeup pic of “ the shard”.

[21twelve]

“...the spacecraft is roughly the size of a telephone booth...”

Must be an older person writing. Beats “the size of 800 cell phones”. Although “refrigerator” would have worked.

[farmguy]

“It will be a dangerous trek. If Odie fails, it will join a growing list of missions that have unsuccessfully sought a lunar touchdown: “

Rekkin that have something to do with NASA becoming woke?

[The Louiswu]

“ It was much easier using 1960s technology…”

Easy???!!! The moon landings cost 3 astronauts their lives and nearly killed 3 more. They cost billions in today’s dollars and set back the way manned space flight should have progressed at least 50 years.

The tech to build the Saturn V had to be reinvented with new materials and processes again cost more billions, in short the whole thing had to be started from scratch.

Getting to the moon and staying will cost more lives and many more billions with an outcome that’s still in question but people need to try.

[Organic Panic]

Cue up the “Whitey in the Moon” album. And does this make Muslims feel good about themselves?

[telescope115]

I missed the launch live, but watched the replay. I hope this mission succeeds, it will be awesome to see.

[cgbg]

I know either you have never heard of it or have heard of it and don’t believe it but just so you can’t say nobody told you.....welcome to the Secret Space Program.

Fasten your seat belt. You are not in Kansas anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t564HRXeS6o

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades. [/snip]