Landing on the moon is not easy worlds first private mons lander legs broken see photo

Odysseus Moon Lander: Sending missions on the moon millions of kilometers from the earth is not a minor thing. Till now only selected countries have been able to land their mission on the moon. These include the US, Russia, China, India and Japan. The US set a record last week when a company there landed on the Odicius lander moon of the intensive machines. It is the first private lander in the world to do so. However, Mission has faced many difficulties. According to a report, ‘Odisius’ made a hard landing on the moon, which broke her one or more legs. The 14 -foot Odicius lander had landed brown soil near the southern pole of the moon on Thursday. Earlier in the year 1972, a US lander reached the moon.

Spacedotcom Report According to, the touchdown of Odisius was not smelled. The 6 -foot lander came downwards with a rapidly than expectation and hit a place on the moon, which was slightly high. The company’s CEO and co-founder Steve Altemus said, “We made a hard landing.” He said that due to the pressure in the landing gear, probably one or two legs of the landing gear were broken.

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According to the report, Odisius stood upright for about two seconds on a land of about 12 degrees slopes. After that he started bending and stayed at 30 degrees. The good thing is that the mission is working. The company has also received some pictures. One of them can be seen what happened during the touchdown. The landing legs are also visible.

This mission record reached the moon in 8 days. On 15 February, it flew with the help of Phalkan-9 rocket of Spacex. The mission went to the moon with the same route, which was sent to Apollo Mission about 50 years ago. The US space agency NASA had contracted about a thousand crore rupees with the company for this mission.