SpaceX & NASA finally did it: Land on the Moon after 51 years. Elon Musk, Nasa's reactions...

fantastic NASA's lunar lander Odus has landed safely on the moon this moment will be recorded as a new great milestone in the history of American Aerospace after more than half a century since Apollo 17 this success is truly an important step forward for NASA into it machines and especially SpaceX so how did the important individuals react to this success and how will the im1 mission impact American Aerospace as well as the race to the moon let's find out in today's episode of great SpaceX after a journey that lasted around 7 Days in space at 1824 on February 22nd Eastern the odys is lunar lander also known as the Nova sea landed in the planned region at the moon's South Pole due to to the weak signal 15 minutes later the flight controller confirmed that the Lander had landed on the moon's surface but the landing took place safely helping Nova odys is become the first private spacecraft to touch down on the moon and the first US spacecraft to do so after more than 50 years this success immediately received notable reactions from important entities and agencies as well first up NASA had this to say on X your order was delivered to the Moon intuitive machines uncrewed lunar lander landed at 623 p.m. Eastern or 2323 UTC bringing NASA science to the moon's surface these instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon Under Artemis intuitive machines then responded to this tweet odsis has a new home but that's not all founder of SpaceX Elon Musk also replied with a single word cool next in NASA's video after confirming the successful Landing Bill Nelson NASA's Chief administrator proudly declared what a Triumph odys has taken the moon this feat is a giant leap forward for all of humanity stay tuned he also added this tweet above the video today for the first time in half a century America has returned to the moon on the eighth day of a quar million mile Voyage intuitive machines aced the landing of a lifetime what a feat for IM SpaceX and NASA what a Triumph for Humanity odyss has taken the moon meanwhile SpaceX had this to say after launching on Falcon 9 last week the intuitive machines im1 Lander aims to safely touch down on the lunar surface today wishing intuitive machines a safe landing on the moon musk also had an additional two more tweets that included congrats and congrats on landing on the moon in the posts of intuitive machines not only the sides directly involved in the im1 mission but other agencies have also given positive reactions to this success astrobotic the agency that conducted last month's moon landing attempt tweeted congratulations to fellow clps company intuitive machines an incredible achievement we can't wait to join you on the lunar surface in the near future and finally spacex's big competitor blue origin post a brief tweet saying congratulations it can be said that to achieve this success Nova C odyss went through a magical journey it was launched on a falcon9 rocket at 10:05 a.m. eastern on February 15th and then successfully separated from the falcon9 second stage toward the moon in Daily updates from the intuitive machines team odyss was always in excellent Health throughout the journey the battery system is fully charged and communication is continuously maintained in particular the fuel system which caused the failure of the previous astrobotic paragr Mission worked well without any problems this shows that the problem of loading fuel for the spacecraft before launch has been solved well by both intuitive machines and SpaceX a notable incident with this mission was that Nova se's navigation system rejected star treer data on February 15th due to the difference between pre-flight and inflight parameters a day later the spacecraft also experienced some interruption in Uplink and downlink Communications between Nova C and the ground station additionally when Landing the lunar lander encountered a short period of weak connection causing data to be transmitted 15 minutes later but these problems were not too serious and were resolved quickly during this journey the lunar lander conducted one engine commissioning maneuver on February 16th before entering lunar orbit trajectory correction maneuver processes were also successfully operated twice on February 18th and the 20th to check and direct the lunar Landers path by the 20th the lunar lander had been about 68,000 km from the Moon and was ready for lunar orbit insertion on February 21st on that day the main engine lunar orbit insertion burned successfully lasting 408 seconds resulting in the lunar lander reaching a 92 km circular lunar orbit the flight controller then also performed other small operations like lunar correction Maneuvers racing Lander orbit and exercising additional orbit finally The Landing lasted about an hour and 15 minutes starting with orbit insertion and ending with the landing at 18 hours 24 minutes as I mentioned earlier currently the flight controller confirmed that the lunar lander is upright on the lunar surface during these processes Nova adicus continuously sent data back to Earth on the 17th intutive machines released the first images transmitted after the lunar lander separated from the falcon9 second stage later it also sent another image when it was about 100,000 km away from the Moon when it passed over the moon it also took images of the moon's surface here we have the belavic K crater near the moon's Equator the other data has also been sent back continuously and analyzed by flight controllers to give us parameters about speed engine thrust and distance to the Moon after solving the communication problem during the landing the lunar lander is still sending data and images of the lunar surface and its activities back to earth safe to say when looking at the overall journey of Nova C adicus we see that it is much better than previous missions firstly the flight Journey has been greatly shortened lasting only a week much faster than the previous monthly journeys of India Japan and NASA's astrobotic this is an important stride as limiting flight time in space is extremely necessary for establishing a base on the moon during the entire Journey there were not too many major problems the Lander was always in excellent health and landed well it didn't encounter fuel problems leading to failure before landing like the Luna 25 from Ross Cosmos or astrobot paragr it also didn't land in the wrong posture like Japan's sliim as for whether it can operate longer than chandrian 3 well that one we need to wait before we can find out the answer however the success demonstrated the ability to triumph over numerous challenges showcasing exceptional resilience Innovation and teamwork that intuitive machines had proudly announced before and in order to achieve those successes we cannot forget the contribution of spacex's Falcon 9 reusable rocket the im1 mission is the 299th Falcon 9 mission in history currently falcon9 has passed the Milestone of 300 launches and also just achieved the 300th successful launch on February 20th that is obvious proof showing the great reliability of the Falcon family during that mission booster b1060 also achieved 18 launches continuing to maintain progress to reach that goal of 40 for each boot booster another feat that SpaceX has accomplished with the Falcon 9 that demonstrates their superiority over the rest in reusability and cost optimization this year spacex's goals will be even more intense than last year with plans to launch up to 148 missions it'll not only help Falcon 9 maintain its leading position as the most launched rocket but also help SpaceX continue to achieve new milestones in terms of the number of successes and reuse times and the recent IM One mission can also be considered a direct victory for Falcon 9 against competitors such as Ula the lunar lander Mission launched in early January on the new Vulcan rocket is really the only competitor that sends a rather challenging message to SpaceX but SpaceX has shown Ula that they are not so easy to defeat there is no need for the appearance of Falcon heavy or Starship Falcon 9 will do just fine and SpaceX can do what Vulcan did did but even better although not NASA's first lunar Landing attempt SpaceX is the organization that helped NASA do it successfully this will continue to maintain spacex's huge influence on us Aerospace and with the success of im1 comes another important stride allowing more room for confidence in SpaceX before emis missions especially the third mission which will happen at the end of 2026 where humans will land on the moon but for now I have to say that this once again with more Gusto we have returned to the Moon although this is not a crude Mission im1 has completed its role in Paving the way for Humanity to return to the Moon that is a wonderful achievement that demonstrates Humanity's continuous efforts in space exploration in particular we have also partly seen the capabilities of SpaceX the organization that will participate in bringing humans back to the moon in the next few years but hey it's not just the moon they will have a huge influence on the US and Global Aerospace industry the road to the moon has opened and now it's time for us to countown to the next historic feat well folks that's about it for today's episode thank you so much for tuning in and as always this is Kevin from great SpaceX and until next time keep looking up