2024-10-29
26 分钟From Recorded Future News, I'm Dina Temple.
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4, 3, 2, 1, ignition.
And liftoff.
Go SpaceX.
Go IM1.
And Odysseus lunar lander.
Earlier this year, NASA did something that it hadn't done in 52 years.
It sent a spacecraft to the moon.
Signal propulsion is nominal.
The lunar lander they sent up into space had a name, Odysseus, as in Homer's Iliad.
Though, as you'll hear, Intuitive Machines, the relatively small Houston aerospace company that created it, had lots of nicknames for this robotic explorer.
Odie.
Scrappy little dude.
So are you the one who called Odie a scrappy little dude, or was that someone else?
You know, I can't say for sure.
We early on kind of said, this spacecraft's a fighter.
This is Tim Crane.
He's the co founder and chief technology officer at Intuitive Machines.
And then that kind of morphed into, as the hours got longer and the sleep got shorter, a scrappy little dude.