American Cameras Capture the First Images of the Moon's Surface in Half a Century

On February 22 the first American mission to the Moon in over 50 years reached its destination, setting down the Nova-C Odysseus lander in the Malapert A region of the satellite's South Pole. It was not a perfect landing, but it was good enough to allow all the science instruments sent up there to work as advertised. It took NASA and Intuitive Machines, the company that made the Odysseus, almost a week after the (continue reading...)