LIVE View NASA IM-1 Lunar Lander Moon Landing

Watch live NASA IM-1 Lunar Lander landing on the Moon. The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission objective is to place a NOVA-C lander, called Odysseus, at crater Malapert A near the south pole of the Moon. The commercially built lander will carry five NASA payloads and commercial cargo. The scientific objectives of the mission include studies of plume-surface interactions, radio astronomy, and space weather interactions with the lunar surface. It will also be demonstrating precision landing technologies and communication and navigation node capabilities. IM-1 was selected through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, in which NASA contracts with a commercial partner, in this case Intuitive Machines, that provides the launch and lander. IM-1 launched on 15 February 2024 at 06:05 UT (1:05 a.m. EST) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center. The lander deployed from the second stage at 06:53 UT. The spacecraft will continue in a 185 x 60,000 km Earth orbit, followed by a