Watching the Lunar Landing?

[kbaxter60]

This is the first I heard of it, but a US company (commercial) is about to land on the moon. First landing since 1972, so it's big news. I believe that it is unmanned, but a test for future manned flights. If you want to watch live, it is just about to happen on FOX LIve now.

 

[crystalphoto]

you want to watch live, it is just about to happen on FOX LIve now

I couldn't get past all the commercials on FOX News, watching live on CNN, surprisingly.

 

[kbaxter60]

It's a collaboration between NASA and Intuitive Machines. We are past the 5:23 central landing time, but they are having comms issues and are trying to reestablish the link. The lander has an autonomous landing system, so should be okay. We shall see...

 

[brashears9567]

Successful landing. Watching on nasa space flight YouTube channel.


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[crystalphoto]

They are communicating with the landed module.

There is only so much Wolf Blitzer and whoever that other chick is that I can stand. Done here...

 

[Wudidiz]

We did this a half of a century ago. Not too much exitement for this one.

 

[no2gates]

I saw the first one, but I'll pass on this one.

 

[baboon]

I saw the first one, but I'll pass on this one.

I watched the first one as a stupid little kid. All these years later I actually question if it wasn’t a Stanley Kubrick production in a sound stage in the UK. Just the other night I started to watch a YouTube video but nodded out.

I guess getting to this rip old age and seeing what a joke our government is I just don’t believe anything.

 

[Lead Belly]

It's 2024 and no footage of the landing ??

0 (ZERO!) seconds of REAL FOOTAGE here! ZERO!!!

 

[Vaquero]

It's 2024 and no footage of the landing ??

0 (ZERO!) seconds of REAL FOOTAGE here! ZERO!!!

No cameraman.

 

[Wudidiz]

That's really lame not to have landing footage. No way of knowing if it actually happened. The Mission Control head says "It landed. We have a signal" and everyone starts jumping around like they won the lottery.

 

[crystalphoto]

Somewhere in the barren wasteland of New Mexico...

 

[oldag]

Loonie landing? Hope Biden doesn't trip on the jet stair again.

 

[Wudidiz]

Loonie landing? Hope Biden doesn't trip on the jet stair again.

That only happens when his diaper gets overloaded.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

What camera would get video of the landing?

 

[no2gates]

What camera would get video of the landing?

Wait for it...

 

[Wudidiz]

What camera would get video of the landing?

The one that was on the lander for that purpose.
Due to the navigation complications, which required the uplink of a software patch, they decided to power down EagleCam during landing and not deploy the device during Odysseus' final descent.

However, both the Intuitive Machines and EagleCam teams still plan to deploy EagleCam and capture images of the lander on the lunar surface as the mission continues. They say.

 

[kbaxter60]

I haven't seen any Eagle Cam video yet, but this is the first pic I have come across.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Heard on the news this morning that it landed on its side.

 

[Gordo]

It came down just a little off vertical travel path, hit in the upright position, but because it had some horizontal momentum, tipped over.

At least it's not upside down, like the Japanese screw-up.
Is there a wrecker service on the moon that could go flip both of them right side up?