Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen ...

In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...

Related: Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 Payloads aboard Athena include a drill (The Regolith and Ice Drill for ...

This second lander is the latest in its contract to build four vehicles for NASA as part of a program in which the space agency is working with private ... of the Odysseus lunar lander from ...

The second Intuitive Machines mission of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program will arrive on the Moon in ...

The 14-foot-tall Nova-C the lander, nicknamed Odysseus for ... agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. In recent years, NASA has shifted to paying private companies for ...

However, all was not lost. NASA had committed to the contract and said Astrobotic could fly a mass simulator to the Moon. The ...

As soon as late February, a lunar lander will depart from NASA’s Kennedy Space ... landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon ...

Related: Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander, a 1st for US since 1972 Payloads aboard Athena include a drill (The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring ...

Both Athena and Odysseus are based on Intuitive Machines' Nova-C class lunar lander spacecraft, which takes the shape of a tall, hexagonal cylinder. "Each lunar mission builds on the last ...