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A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over
Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much
Intuitive Machines’ chief technology officer said in a post-landing press conference that Athena is somewhere inside the 50-meter landing zone on Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain on the moon’s south pole. Athena is also carrying an ice mining experiment for NASA, which the agency had hoped to use to determine whether there are enough natural resources on the moon to one day make fuel or breathable oxygen. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
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