But after a few strained minutes, a faint signal was detected. "Houston, Odysseus has found its new home,” said Dr. Tim Crain, IM-1’s mission director.

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China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth.

Indeed, persistence is everything when it comes to space investigation. “Never quit the lunar quest” was the motto underpinning a high-stakes mission that aimed to touch down on the moon Thursday.

In public, the Soviet Union was noncommittal. The official government newspaper Pravda, for example, dismissed its nation’s own 1963 proposal for a Moon mission as premature.