A drill to search for ice. Also aboard Athena is PRIME-1, a NASA instrument carrying a drill to search for ice and other ...
The destination is Mons Mouton, one of NASA 's potential landing locations for its Artemis astronauts. Intuitive Machines ' ...
Firefly Aerospace released video of the Blue Ghost lunar lander as it made its final descent and touched down on the surface ...
Firefly Aerospace successfully reached the lunar surface, to be followed in short order by space companies Intuitive Machines ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.
Landing on the moon is hard, but Intuitive Machines will try for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill.
Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made it Sunday.
The IM-2 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. ET, February 26, ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.
History is set to be made on the Moon again this week, with Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission Nova-C class lunar lander Athena ...