Intuitive Machines Moon Lander

"Oh yea! and whats keeps the turtle up?"

"Its turtles all the way down off course" 😁

And a pic of the earth taken by the lander lander.

LIVE Press conference from Intuitive Machines & NASA

It would be cool if they actually had some pictures!!!

At least in 1966 NASA already knew how to land on the Moon to inspect the soil! The Surveyor 3 was even visited by the Apollo 12 astronauts !
(Photos: NASA)
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Some general ""Press releases"" annoyed me again... as if successful unmanned landings have never been done
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Spaceflight fans know both the Russians and Americans landed unmanned spacecraft on the Moon, even with sample return...
Indeed the unmanned NASA Lunar Ranger program, which crashed towards the lunar surface while taking photographs, were intended to crash onto the Moon. By 1965, the unmanned Surveyor program also explored the lunar surface as scientists didn't know how thick the lunar soil was in different places. Five (out of 7) Surveyor craft landed successfully and as mentioned above, Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 Moonwalkers.
This commercial top-heavy "Phone Booth" probably has too much stuff onboard, even an "Artwork" ( claimed the first on the Moon 😕 )
By the way, already in August 1971 Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck had the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine artwork onboard Apollo 15, so the current IM-1 artwork certainly isn't the first !
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut