U.S. spacecraft encounters problem during its ambitious moon landing
A 15-foot-tall spacecraft had an imperfect landing on the moon.The NASA-funded mission to the moon, operated by the Houston space exploration company Intuitive Machines, touched down on March 6, but engineers are still uncertain about its orientation and overall condition. Is the spacecraft, for example, lying on its side?Though the robotic craft, called Athena, performed excellently on its flight to and around the moon, this landing mishap comes a year after Intuitive Machines' first gover
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