US President Joe Biden welcomed, on Saturday, the landing of an American probe on the moon, despite partial problems encountered by the mission. Biden said that this event opens “a new era of space exploration,” with the expected return of astronauts to the moon.
The American company “Intuitive Machines”, the first private company to land on the moon, announced on Friday that its probe may have ended up lying on one side instead of landing vertically on the moon, but it pointed out that it would nevertheless be able to obtain scientific data and images collected by the probe. During the mission.
Biden announced, in a statement, that “America is once again leading the world to the moon,” recalling the late US President John Kennedy, who pushed the “Apollo” program for space exploration in the 1960s.
The landing of the “Odysseus” mission probe on the surface of the moon, which is the first of its kind for an American vehicle since the end of the famous program in 1972, opens “a new and exciting phase in a new era of space exploration,” according to the Democratic American president, who saluted the teams of “Intuitive Machines” and the space agency. American (NASA).
Biden added, “This is the first of many missions conducted in partnership between the public and private sectors, which brings together our commercial and international partners to return humans to the moon for the first time in decades.”
The Nova-C lander carries scientific instruments from NASA, which wants to explore the south pole of the moon before sending its astronauts there, as part of future Artemis missions.
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