2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science
IM-1 Odysseus
First U.S. soft lunar landing since 1972 and first commercial lunar soft landing.
Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 15 Feb 2024
- Lead / partner
- Intuitive Machines
- Target
- Moon
- Category
- Commercial lunar lander
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-299
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
- Duration
- Launch to Landing: 13 days On surface: 30 minutes (lifespan)
Why it happened
IM-1 Odysseus flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of Intuitive Machines's work toward moon. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: First U.S. soft lunar landing since 1972 and first commercial lunar soft landing.
Results
First U.S. soft lunar landing since 1972 and first commercial lunar soft landing.
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Sources & image credits
- NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
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