{"id":16968,"date":"2024-03-03T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T06:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?page_id=16968"},"modified":"2024-03-03T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T06:58:53","slug":"why-nasas-first-landing-on-the-moon-in-50-years-matters-its-commercial-cryogenic-confused","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?page_id=16968","title":{"rendered":"Why NASA&#8217;s First Landing On The Moon in 50 Years Matters &#8211; It&#8217;s Commercial, Cryogenic &amp; Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Intuitive Machines have successfully soft landed on the Moon, carrying a number of payloads for NASA, this represents a return to the moon for the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However far more significantly, it&#8217;s the first purely commercial lander to land on the surface of the moon, and the first lunar lander to use purely cryogenic propellents for all its deep space maneuvering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why NASA&#039;s First Landing On The Moon in 50 Years Matters - It&#039;s Commercial, Cryogenic &amp; Confused\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wynBeg7BYr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these factors are core to NASA&#8217;s Artemis program, and so seeing success here is important to NASA&#8217;s plans. However. It&#8217;s far from a perfect success, because it appears to have fallen over during the landing, and this is limiting the communications with the Earth, it&#8217;s not clear how much science will be possible with the lunar surface payloads, but at least 3 of the payloads already contributed directly to the success of the landing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The model I used in animations is by IronManElonMusk for Juno New Origins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqay0xUUJzNl9jWUp6NWJDM2JTdmRaYjN3UndCZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsTU5tNXZSRmRDM3lfakxsQUdsbE5URzZaODdOV1lXdTB5ODhfVi1ZbEhTZlp6OUZGX3NrQjgtaUNvOFdCbEg1ODY4cGZod1hqX1VmZUt3SjVCSGg1cmtwNU8wRzdPcmlDNk0zdXJsVlB5VnFzNVhXSQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.simplerockets.com%2Fc%2Fy29Fg0%2FNOVA-C&amp;v=wynBeg7BYr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.simplerockets.com\/c\/y29Fg&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intuitive Machines have successfully soft landed on the Moon, carrying a number of payloads for NASA, this represents a return to the moon for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16971,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16968","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16968\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}