With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi ...

The lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. If all goes well, Intuitive Machines 2 (IM-2) would land on the moon around March 6 in area known as Mons Mouton. On its way to the moon ...

Known as Athena, this Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander is poised to launch to the moon no earlier than 7:02 p.m. Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. The lander will launch atop a SpaceX ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Friday, NASA unveiled the massive Artemis II rocket that will be used to return humans to the moon in an orbital mission that will last 10 days as the program manager ...

transcript Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private Athena lunar lander is on its way to the moon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after sunset this evening (Feb. 26), carrying Athena and NASA's ride ...

It's a larger, fully reusable version of the rocket that flew humans to the moon, he added, "and it's just really audacious." Why Starship is critical for building on the moon Though the moon isn ...

The Houston company’s Nova-C lander, dubbed Athena, was pushed into space at 6:16 p.m. CST by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It’s expected to land near the moon’s South Pole on March 6 and then ...

He strongly advocated for the SLS rocket after Congress directed NASA to develop it in 2011. "Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about 45 ...

Its destination is the moon, where NASA and the company hope the tools and experiments on board will find different forms of water on the lunar satellite. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent up the IM ...

The mission, conducted under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, carries sophisticated instruments designed to analyze the moon’s regolith for water ice and other vital ...