We could be watching a historic moon touchdown immediately.

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 spacecraft, the uncrewed Odysseus, might doubtlessly land on the floor of the Moon on Feb. 22 at round 4:24 p.m. ET, after an eight-day journey by way of house. Whereas we won’t be fully certain that the touchdown will probably be profitable, on Wednesday Intuitive Machines mentioned Odysseus “continues to be in glorious well being in lunar orbit.”

You possibly can watch the official stream on Intuitive Machines’ web site, on NASA’s web site, NASA Tv, the NASA app, or on NASA+. You may also sustain by following weblog updates on NASA’s web site. The stay protection begins at round 3:00 p.m. ET, will proceed by way of the potential touchdown, and ends with a information convention held by NASA.

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The spacecraft is predicted to land close to Malapert A crater within the south pole area of the moon.

Odysseus launched on Feb. 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart. Its touchdown would make the primary business moon touchdown and is kind of the feat. Touchdown on the moon is an infamously tough activity for a wide range of causes, together with the dearth of GPS techniques and atmospheric drag. Solely 5 nations, together with the previous Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India, and Japan, have landed on the moon with no important wreck.