The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit around the moon and setting the stage for a landing try Thursday, the first for a U.S. spacecraft in more than 50 years.'Odysseus is now closer to the moon than the end-to-end distance driving across Space City, Houston,' spacecraft builder Intuitive Machines said on its web page.
The make-or-break maneuver slowed the spacecraft, nicknamed 'Odie,' by 1,789 mph to put the lander in the planned circular orbit.Flight controllers at Intuitive Machines's Nova Control Center in Houston plan to work through a series of health checks, data reviews and rehearsals to make sure Odysseus is ready for its historic descent to the surface Thursday in what would be the first for a privately-built non-government spacecraft.
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