{"id":13100,"date":"2024-02-22T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13100"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T20:15:46","slug":"its-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/22\/its-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0MARCIA DUNN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE: Private US lander arrives at moon\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rofPS3CnRFk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/moon-landing-private-company-fed3a76d25c9f68cf20d2b6efd48b593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private lander<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had landed upright. But it did not provide additional details, including whether the lander had reached its intended destination near the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moon\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>south pole. The company ended its live webcast soon after identifying a lone, weak signal from the lander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the moon,\u201d mission director Tim Crain reported as tension built in the company\u2019s Houston control center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus: \u201cI know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface and we are transmitting. Welcome to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years BY\u00a0MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A&nbsp;private lander&nbsp;on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}