By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street treaded water and gold prices fell on Wednesday as investors parsed mixed U.S. retail earnings and weak housing data, while looking ahead to Nvidia results and the minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting. All three major U.S. stock indexes were essentially unchanged in […]
It’s Election Day in Arizona and elderly voters in Maricopa County are told by phone that local polling places are closed due to threats from militia groups. Meanwhile, in Miami, a flurry of photos and videos on social media show poll workers dumping ballots. The phone calls in Arizona and the videos in Florida turn […]
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in half a century, was “still kicking” on Thursday but nearing shutdown, as scientists watched out for the final signals from its multi-million-dollar mission to collect data. The spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface a week ago […]
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Flight control engineers expect to lose contact with the private U.S. moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission five days after its sideways touchdown, the company behind the spacecraft, Intuitive Machines , said on Monday. It remained to be seen how much scientific data might be […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is expected to cease operations Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon. Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the […]
The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday. The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform X just after the historic mission made its touchdown on the […]
By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after a white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United States since 1972, the company behind the vehicle said on Friday. […]