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US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’
(www.theguardian.com)
Not the US. just a corporation.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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A company that is funded and supported by NASA.
From the press kit available on their site:
In 2018, the United States declared the Moon of strategic interest and refocused NASA on returning to the Moon sustainably under the agency’s Artemis program. The following year, NASA awarded Intuitive Machines its first task order to land a suite of payloads on the surface of the Moon. Over the next four years, Intuitive Machines built an entire space program[...]
They used SpaceX to get most of the way there, everything else was on IM, but the whole thing was tasked and funded by NASA.
So, yes, the US did return to the lunar surface.
Thanks! That's much less bad.
There's a difference? 😉
Well, a company that happens to be located currently within the USA.
They could just as easily have been based in Australia, or France, or Canada. It's not a public thing at all, just a private business thing.
They went on a direct task order from NASA.
The NASA feed I watched mentioned "NASA science" being carried on the lander so I think this is just an expansion of our move from fully public funded space science missions to a mix of private/public.
At first I wasn't happy about it, but I know our country and too many people don't give a single shit about NASA or any space exploration so the budget is terrible.
NASA funded almost half the mission.
with a title like that, I thought it was a manned mission
Great, there's an ad on the moon now.
At least it wasn’t on its roof but “a success”.
And so, the trashification of lunar surface begins.
Can't wait to see my first NordVPN ad from space on a giant glowing billboard sprawling across the moon
Yeah and you know that? I’ll bet $100 it didn’t land upside down.