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If all goes to plan, Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander will touchdown about 190 miles from the south pole of the moon, the target for NASA’s Artemis program to potentially send humans to the moon in the future. It would be the first American spacecraft to touch down on the moon since the Apollo program, and the first by a private firm.

On board are six NASA payloads and five commercial payloads. The NASA instruments include tools to study how the landing itself produces plumes of moon dust, several devices to help the craft land safely and a device to measure radio waves and how they affect the lunar surface. The commercial payloads include a camera that will be tossed off the lander before it touches down to take photographs of the landing, 125 tiny sculptures by artist Jeff Koons and a chip designed to establish an archive of human knowledge on the moon.

Odysseus follows Astrobotic’s failed Peregrine landing, which suffered a fuel leak shortly after its January launch.

Footage credit: Intuitive Machines

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