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Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C
“You lose it, and then what do you do? You don’t give up. You go back in.”…
"The landing was kind of like sliding into second base," Steve Altemus, chief executive officer of Intuitive Machines, which built the lander, said in an interview Thursday. In addition, the company proved out its communications technology that will be used as part of a lunar data relay network that NASA has contracted with Intuitive Machines to develop. Moreover, Athena attempted to land within a few degrees of the south pole, a challenging location due to the solar angle and uneven terrain, and made it down without crashing.
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