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**Another Attempt at the Moon: Lunar Lander Launch Delayed by Technical Glitch**
A robotic lunar lander launched in the early morning hours of Thursday, one day after a technical glitch postponed the first launch attempt. If all goes well, it will become the first American spacecraft to set down softly on the moonÔÇÖs surface since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972.

It is also the latest private effort to send spacecraft to the moon. Earlier attempts have all ended in failure. But the company in charge of the latest effort, Intuitive Machines of Houston, is optimistic.

ÔÇ£I feel fairly confident that weÔÇÖre going to be successful softly touching down on the moon,ÔÇØ said Stephen Altemus, the president and chief executive of Intuitive Machines. ÔÇ£WeÔÇÖve done the testing. WeÔÇÖve tested and tested and tested. As much testing as we could do.ÔÇØ

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**The spacecraft is on its way to space**
The Intuitive Machines lander, named Odysseus, launched at 1:05 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASAÔÇÖs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX and NASA are streaming coverage of the flight, which you can watch in the player embedded above.

The first several minutes of the flight went as planned with the rocket heading to space and the second stage of the vehicle separating moments later from the Falcon 9ÔÇÖs booster, which then began its return to a landing site. After separating from the second stage, the Intuitive Machines spacecraft will turn itself on as it travels toward the moon. It is get in touch with Intuitive Machines controllers about 50 minutes after launch.

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**Postponement of the launch and landing details**
SpaceX announced late on Tuesday that it was postponing a launch attempt on Wednesday morning. The company said in a post on X that the temperature of methane fuel for the lander was ÔÇ£off-nominal.ÔÇØ That problem was overcome on Thursday.

If the launch occurs this week, the landing will be on Feb. 22 near a crater named Malapert A. (Malapert A is a satellite crater of the larger Malapert crater, which is named after Charles Malapert, a 17th-century Belgian astronomer.) Odysseus will enter orbit around the moon about 24 hours before the landing attempt.

The landing site, about 185 miles from the south pole on the near side of the moon, is relatively flat, an easier location for a spacecraft to land. No American spacecraft has ever landed at the lunar south pole, which is a focus of many space agencies and companies because it may be rich in frozen water.

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**The spacecraft details and its cargo to the moon**
Intuitive Machines calls its spacecraft design Nova-C and named this particular lander Odysseus. It is a hexagonal cylinder with six landing legs, about 14 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Intuitive Machines points out that the body of the lander is roughly the size of an old British phone booth ÔÇö that is, like the Tardis in the ÔÇ£Doctor WhoÔÇØ science fiction television show.

At launch, with a full load of propellant, the lander weighs about 4,200 pounds.

NASA is the main customer for the Intuitive Machines flight; it is paying the company $118 million to deliver its payloads. NASA also spent an additional $11 million to develop and build the six instruments on the flight.

The lander is also carrying a few other payloads, including a camera built by students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida; a precursor instrument for a future moon telescope; and an art project by Jeff Koons.

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**American spacecraft headed to the moon**
On Jan. 8, Astrobotic Technology sent its Peregrine lander toward the moon. But a malfunction with its propulsion system shortly after launch prevented any possibility of landing. Ten days later, as Peregrine swung back toward Earth, it burned up in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean.

Both Odysseus and Peregrine are part of NASAÔÇÖs Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. The object of the program is to use commercial companies to send experiments to the moon rather than NASA building and operating its own moon landers.

The space agency hopes this approach will be much cheaper, allowing it to send more missions more frequently as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon as part of its Artemis program.

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