NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is celebrating the successful landing of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission bearing NASA science .NASA sees an even brighter future for its human moon-landing program after a private robotic mission safely touched down last week.landing. That mission, known as IM-1, made the first soft U.S. lunar touchdown in 52 years this past Thursday .
The lander for IM-1, known as Odysseus, was the first private machine overall to soft-land on the moon, and the first U.S. vehicle to successfully do so since the crewed Dyson will launch from Kazakhstan aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft no earlier than March 21, for a six-month stay aboard the ISS. Joining her will becosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, who will each spend 12 days in space before returning to Earth.
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