LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. company Intuitive Machines launched its second lunar mission on Wednesday to deliver science payloads of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

The companies Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace, and ispace are all preparing to land on the moon. A new era of lunar ...

Once deployed, the IM-2 mission's lunar lander, Athena, will start its 8-day trip to the South Pole of the Moon.

On Feb. 22, 2024, Intuitive Machines' uncrewed Odysseus lander became the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface since Apollo 17's Challenger lunar module. The lander toppled onto its ...

The uncrewed lander will carry both NASA and commercial payloads to the lunar surface in preparation for future missions.

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, February 26 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Houston-based Intuitive Machines successfully completed the second launch of its lunar lander mission at 7:17 p.m. EST ...

The latest contender is a standout: The spacecraft, called Athena, was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which so ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

A SpaceX launch of Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission of the lunar lander Athena lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander launched Wednesday evening from Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.