Odysseus’ landing captured a leg, as it performed its primary task, absorbing first contact with the lunar surface. With the lander’s liquid methane and liquid oxygen engine still throttling, it provided stability. Credit: Intuitive Machines A NASA scientific balloon awaits launch in McMurdo, Antarctica. Credit: NASA NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has successfully navigated a critical phase of its mission, coming 25 million miles closer to the Sun than initially planned, to eventually rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is dramatically lit for a “glamour shot,” captured before its January 12, 2024, rollout at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale where the airplane was constructed. Credit: Lockheed Martin / Michael Jackson
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