Odysseus
noun
Odys·seus
ō-ˈdi-sē-əs 
-ˈdis-yəs,
-ˈdi-shəs,
-ˈdi-ˌshüs
: a king of Ithaca and Greek leader in the Trojan War who after the war wanders 10 years before reaching home
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As the primary customer for the Odysseus mission, NASA paid Intuitive Machines $118 million to take its scientific payloads to the moon.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
High Culture What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons
What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
But the clock was ticking for Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft after touching down on February 22 near the Moon's south pole.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
Most recently, a private lunar lander called Odysseus successfully landed on the moon in the first U.S. mission to the moon since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1972.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024
Earlier this week, the company posted images from Odysseus’ journey to the moon showing Earth in the background.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander, nicknamed Odysseus, was orbiting the moon on Wednesday and is expected to make a soft landing on the surface at 5:49 p.m. ET Thursday, reports CNN.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Founded in 2013, the company—with just 389 employees—is working with public and private sectors to develop a commercial economy on and around the moon, so Odysseus carried both scientific equipment for NASA and payloads for commercial firms.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 May 2024
Within a week of landing near the south pole, Odysseus was on the verge of powering down for good.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
High Culture What Greek epics taught me about the special relationship between fathers and sons
What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
But the clock was ticking for Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft after touching down on February 22 near the Moon's south pole.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
Most recently, a private lunar lander called Odysseus successfully landed on the moon in the first U.S. mission to the moon since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1972.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024
Earlier this week, the company posted images from Odysseus’ journey to the moon showing Earth in the background.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander, nicknamed Odysseus, was orbiting the moon on Wednesday and is expected to make a soft landing on the surface at 5:49 p.m. ET Thursday, reports CNN.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
Founded in 2013, the company—with just 389 employees—is working with public and private sectors to develop a commercial economy on and around the moon, so Odysseus carried both scientific equipment for NASA and payloads for commercial firms.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 May 2024
Within a week of landing near the south pole, Odysseus was on the verge of powering down for good.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
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