{"id":206306,"date":"2024-02-18T01:41:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/intuitive-machines-moon-lander-sent-home-its-first-images-and-theyre-breathtaking\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:49","slug":"intuitive-machines-moon-lander-sent-home-its-first-images-and-theyre-breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/intuitive-machines-moon-lander-sent-home-its-first-images-and-theyre-breathtaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuitive Machines\u2019 moon lander sent home its first images and they\u2019re breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Intuitive Machines\u2019 lunar lander is well on its way to the moon after launching without a hitch on Thursday, but it managed to snap a few incredible images of Earth while it was still close to home. The company shared the first batch of images from the IM-1 mission on <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Int_Machines\/status\/1758899202174685589?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">X<\/a> today after confirming in an earlier post that the spacecraft is \u201cin excellent health.\u201d Along with a view of Earth and some partial selfies of the Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, you can even see the SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage falling away in the distance after separation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"d0b0b4d1-64bb-5000-a32b-ae44913d7bfe\">\n<blockquote placeholder=\"\" data-theme=\"light\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were captured shortly after separation from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@SpaceX;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@SpaceX<\/a>&#8216;s second stage on Intuitive Machines\u2019 first journey to the Moon under <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@NASA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@NASA<\/a>&#8216;s CLPS initiative. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9LccL6q5tF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pic.twitter.com\/9LccL6q5tF;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pic.twitter.com\/9LccL6q5tF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Int_Machines\/status\/1758899202174685589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:February 17, 2024;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">February 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Odysseus is on track to make its moon landing attempt on February 22, and so far appears to be performing well. The team posted a series of updates on X at the end of the week confirming the lander has passed some key milestones ahead of its touchdown, including engine firing. This marked \u201cthe first-ever in-space ignition of a liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine,\u201d according to Intuitive Machines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/intuitive-machines-moon-lander-sent-home-its-first-images-and-theyre-breathtaking-194208799.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Intuitive Machines\u2019 lunar lander is well on its way to the moon after launching without a hitch on Thursday, but it managed to snap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343698,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206306\/revisions\/343698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}