Moon landing: What’s next as US spacecraft returns to lunar surface for 1st time since 1972

For the team at canadensis Aerospace Thursday’s moonlanding was a moment to celebrate seeing their hard work reach the lunar surface opens new possibilities for their equipment excited as we are about this uh Landing tonight we’re looking forward to the coming week to actually be doing some of

The uh the science and and Engineering on the lunar surface the corporation provided two cameras that are part of the intuitive machines lunar lander and five that are part of two commercial payloads after making it through through the flight one of the systems will collect images of the center of the

Milky Way galaxy from the moon it’s part of a partnership with the international lunar Observatory Association the moon has H crazy harsh conditions you know nighttime temperatures that are minus 200 C daytime temperatures that are uh plus 100 Celsius canadensis is one of two Canadian companies that are part of

This Mission these are also the first Canadian space agency funded technologies that have reached the lunar surface since the Apollo missions the second organization and MDA developed Landing sensors that helped the spacecraft determine the distance to the Moon during its descent the Nova sea Lander known as aysus is the first

Commercial spacecraft to safely touch down on its surface Houston odius has found his new home OD disis is part of NASA’s commercial lunar payload service where the administration is Contracting private businesses to offer Transportation as it looks to use the moon as a Launchpad today is a day that

Shows the power and promise of Mass’s commercial Partnerships Canada space sector is at the Forefront as more funding and research filters through to explore beyond the moon and the systems that are on this Mission now we’re as we’re learning more about them uh the hardware but also the operational

Lessons we learn we’re applying those in future missions the 14ot tall carbon fiber and titanium spacecraft is solar powered and is expected to run for a week until lunar night begins Kyle Benning Global News

A private lander touched down on the moon Thursday but managed just a weak signal back, as flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact with the first U.S. spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years.

Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had landed.

The landing put the U.S. back on the surface for the first time since NASA’s famed Apollo moonwalkers.

Kyle Benning has more.

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