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

Houston-based Intuitive Machines has successfully launched its second lunar lander, Athena, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Intuitive Machines’ lander, named Athena, caught a lift with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s taking a fast ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private company launches another lunar lander toward the moon with a target touchdown at the south pole.

SpaceX is set to launch the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission this evening from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

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

Houston-based Intuitive Machines has planned a second launch of its lunar lander mission at 7:17 p.m. EST Wednesday from the ...

Intuitive Machines is set to launch its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search ...

Learn about NASA's Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2, two missions that will soon launch into space to find clues on the presence of ...

Intuitive Machines made history last year as the first private company to put a robot on the Moon, although the triumph was marred by the lander tipping onto its side.

The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its Athena lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft ...