Odysseus Moon Lander Faces Shutdown After Sideways Landing

The first U.S. moon landing in 50 years is jeopardized by communication and power issues, but has achieved significant data collection and historic milestones.

Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in 50 years, faces potential shutdown due to a sideways landing that disrupted communications and solar charging.
Intuitive Machines, the company behind Odysseus, attributes the landing mishap to human error and a last-minute workaround for a navigational glitch.
Despite challenges, NASA has successfully extracted data from all six science payloads aboard Odysseus, with the final fate of the mission pending further solar power.
David Copperfield's magic secrets, part of the Lunaprise payload, have been preserved on the moon, marking a unique addition to human knowledge stored extraterrestrially.
Odysseus's mission signifies a historic moment as the first lunar landing by a commercially manufactured and operated space vehicle under NASA's Artemis program.