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Sideways touchdown cuts short Odysseus lander’s moon mission

The company says one of the lander’s feet caught on the lunar surface causing it to tip over onto its side. ADVERTISEMENT Flight engineers are expecting to lose contact on Tuesday with a private US lunar lander, Odysseus, cutting short its mission by five days. It made history last Thursday by becoming the first US

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Final image of the moon from US’s ill-fated lunar lander… before the mission went ‘sideways’: Odysseus craft is set to be switched off tomorrow after it tipped over on touchdown

The last images from a doomed lunar lander have been published after Odysseus failed to stick the landing on the moon last week. Houston-based Initiative Machines shared stunning images of Earth’s natural satellite captured by the craft as it made its descent to the surface. During America’s first successfully mission to the moon since the

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