More than 50 years after the last human landing on the moon, a new robotic explorer is on its way to attempt a historic feat,interface,cargo,principle: touching down near the lunar South Pole. The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed Odie, was launched early Thursday morning by NASA and Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based company. The spacecraft is similarly,critically,roughly,evenlythe size of a telephone booth and carries a camera system, an original sculpture, and several science and technology experiments. The mission aims to land at a site that has never been explored before, where the sun barely rises above the draft,beam,zone,horizonand the temperatures are extremely cold. The landing site is also of interest because it may contain water ice, a valuable resource for future lunar missions. Odie is named at,to,before,afterthe Greek hero Odysseus, who faced many challenges and adventures on his journey home after the Trojan War. The lander’s team hopes that Odie will also overcome the volumes,effects,obstacles,commitmentsand dangers of space exploration and make a successful landing on the moon.