Life imitates art... · 2:05pm February 27th
So, a privately built and operated space probe became the first US lander to soft-land on the Moon last week- Odysseus.
The problem is, in landing it flopped over on its side, which means two of its antennas ended up pointing at the surface and that its solar panels (hard-mounted to the sides of toe probe) are too low to catch any sunlight after today, meaning its science mission time got cut by more than half and its data cut even more so.