A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s

NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the Intuitive Machines' lunar lander spacecraft Athena. The lander is targeted to land in the moon's south polar region.

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program,

Intuitive Machines second NASA-backed lunar lander mission will deliver scientific instruments to hunt for water under the moon's surface.

Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.

Riding along with IM-2 is NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite, managed by the agency’s. NASA's Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and Artemis campaign,

NASA has announced that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 26.

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s

NASA confirmed on X that Athena, which was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, touched down on the moon at approximately 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday.