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SpaceX to launch Odysseus Moon lander for Intuitive Machines – TWIRL #151

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This Week in Rocket Launches we have a fair few missions coming up. Japan will be doing the second test flight of its H3 rocket while SpaceX will be launching another company’s lunar lander.
This Week in Rocket Launches we have a fair few missions coming up. The most interesting launch will be a Falcon 9 on Wednesday which will be carrying a Nova-C lander called Odysseus for the company Intuitive Machines. The lander will be aiming to land on the Moon with scientific payloads as part of a NASA programme.
Who: SpaceX
What: Falcon 9
When: 5:57 p.m. UTC
Where: Florida, US
Why: SpaceX will be using a Falcon 9 to launch a Nova-C lander called Odysseus for Intuitive Machines. This mission is called IM-1 and will be heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) programme.

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