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Lunar Night Permanently Ends the Odysseus Mission


February 15th, Intuitive Machines (IM) launched its first Nova-C class spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. On February 22nd, the spacecraft - codenamed Odysseus (or "Odie") - became the first American-built vehicle to soft-land on the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

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