FLORIDA — As the Intuitive Machines team continues to monitor the progress of their Odysseus lunar lander, the Crew-8 team is preparing for their mission to the International Space Station.

The latest images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show Odysseus' landing site on the moon after traveling more than 600,000 miles to the surface. The spot is a little more than a mile from the planned landing site.

The Embry Riddle EagleCam team made up of students and faculty are running simulations showing the camera should deploy from the lander roughly 10 to 12 feet away on the surface.

Dr. Troy Henderson, who heads up the team, says “we’re continuing to monitor data and still think we’re healthy, we continue to hope for the best.”

The camera system was not deployed before the lander due to communications issues with another payload on board.

The Crew-8 mission is also gearing up for their mission to the International Space Station. The four member crew landed at Kennedy Space Center Sunday afternoon.

NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin will learn new things during their 180 day stay at the orbiting outpost.

“If I’m prepared at all, it’s to be an observer, and I’m prepared to discover something new that we didn’t see before that was hiding in plain sight right in front of us, so it’d still a laboratory in low Earth orbit, it’s a place of discovery, so I’m prepared to learn something new,” said pilot Michael Barratt

The NASA team conducted a successful Launch Readiness Review on Sunday.

Crew-8 is set to launch on a Space X Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center at 12:04 a.m. this Friday, March 1.

SpaceX is also hoping to send up another batch of Starlink satellites this week.

The company is currently planning a launch on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 11 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.