We're Back in the Game --- Odie Lands on the Moon! (Page 1/1)
Notorio FEB 23, 12:02 AM
In High School, my Russian language teacher told our class about her experience in Moscow on 20 July 1969, when she was visiting her family and walking in the city. A mob of residents was watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on the TVs in a store window. Recognizing that she was an American, they swept her off her feet, carried her to the window, and shouted their congratulations on American's achievement! It was amazing to me then, and now, that even in 'losing' the Space Race, these people in Moscow recognized that milestone 'for all mankind.' Today is another such day! The auto-piloted Odysseus lander, built by Intuitive Machines and launched by SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, safely landed on the surface and after a nerve-wracking delay, resumed transmissions. Let us congratulate all of those involved in this spectacular acheivement!

Odysseus becomes first US spacecraft to land on moon in over 50 years
cvxjet FEB 23, 12:14 AM
I remember we went to a friends' house with a pool!!! so we were all playing in the pool but I never liked people splashing water in my face so, when that happened, I used some bad words...My father banned me from the pool- so I was inside, watching this grainy TV image....That was on July 20, 1969....

The story of the russian people congratulating your teacher is wonderful.....we need to work together and do great things.

Back in the late 60s the expectation was that with-in a decade we'd have large space stations and moonbases......

.............I'm still waiting.............
maryjane FEB 23, 02:46 AM
Launched by Space X on a Falcon9. SpaceX now a Tx incorporated company. The lander itself is from a different and fairly new Houston based company.
jelly2m8 FEB 24, 04:15 AM
I do believe and hope that Apollo's achievements are real, but here we are in 2024 where everybody and their dog has a camera to catch everything Yet ..................Come on, all that money and nothing? UNBELIEVABLE!
steve308 FEB 24, 08:12 AM
Moon lander described as tipped over sideways but 'alive and well' on lunar surface.
maryjane FEB 24, 09:39 AM
I've Fallen and I Can't get Up!
Notorio FEB 24, 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

I've Fallen and I Can't get Up!



Tis too true. I wonder if IM will have to return NASA'a $180M for delivering their experiments to the moon? Or maybe they will be able to deploy some of them ??
cvxjet FEB 24, 12:36 PM
"...I've fallen and can't get up...." Does the lander have ....."Life Alert"?

As far as whether the Apollo landings were real; During one of the Apollo missions, I was watching the moon thru my new Telescope.....on the radio they announced "They are firing the engines" and I saw a flash at the terminator....I realize now that it could have been a meteor entering earth's atmosphere- but surely was an amazing coincidence.

Here is some "Third party" evidence from telescopic picture of the moon's surface;

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82-T/A [At Work] FEB 25, 01:26 PM

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Originally posted by Notorio:

In High School, my Russian language teacher told our class about her experience in Moscow on 20 July 1969, when she was visiting her family and walking in the city. A mob of residents was watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on the TVs in a store window. Recognizing that she was an American, they swept her off her feet, carried her to the window, and shouted their congratulations on American's achievement! It was amazing to me then, and now, that even in 'losing' the Space Race, these people in Moscow recognized that milestone 'for all mankind.'




I'm constantly telling people this... NASA and space exploration isn't just a "thing to spend money on" in our budgets... it's literally one of the rare few things that a country can do that actually propels the human race forward. Not to get political... but everything else, whether it's welfare, war, defense spending, etc... nothing benefits humankind as a whole. I really wish people understood this more.
Notorio FEB 26, 12:02 AM
As a quality management professional, I will point out that this is the kind of lapse that led to the creation of 'double verification' and 'quality audits.' This was a gross failure of the Innovative Machines Quality Assurance Department (assuming they have one.) A tenet in the Quality and Project Management fields is to learn from the experience of others. Relearning lessons that EVERY quality and project manager should know, is incredibly costly and wasteful. What a shame that the value of this moon landing has been drastically reduced by this fundamental error.

Intuitive Machines almost lost its moon lander because somebody forgot to flip a switch before launch