Intuitive Machines

The company provided a static version of the two-person vehicle to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in September.

The firm, fixed-price multiple award task order contract becomes effective Oct. 1.

The NASA science and technology payloads will be focused on identifying the location of water, ice, gas and other volatiles in the region.

New technologies are leveraging the advantages of GEO.

The joint services will become available after 2025.

The mission is planned to launch to the lunar south pole in late 2024.

NASA is continuing its efforts to partner with the U.S. commercial space sector while striving to establish a human presence at the Moon.

Scrappy Houston startup Intuitive Machines puts the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.

The JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon set a standard Intuitive Machines hopes to meet with its Odysseus lunar lander soon.

Intuitive Machines expects to lose communications with its Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus early on Feb. 27 after 4 1/2 days on the Moon’s surface.

Flight controllers at Intuitive Machines conducted their first mission on the Moon’s surface Feb. 23.

Flight directors at Intuitive Machines’ mission control center were working to refine the signal from its Nova-C lander, which touched down on the Moon Feb. 22.

A privately owned lunar lander positioned itself into orbit around the Moon on Feb. 21, setting the stage for an attempted touchdown on Feb. 22.

There is a long history of NASA brain power moving on to private industry.

Intuitive Machines will attempt the first U.S. landing on the Moon in 52 years following a successful launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 early Feb. 15.