Live Updates: Watch the Moon Lander Athena Head for the Lunar Surface

• Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena launched to the moon

  Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena is headed to the moon as part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for NASA's Artemis program. Leroy Chiao, a former astronaut, joins CBS News with more details.
  
  CBS News - Feb. 27

• Commercial moon lander ready for descent to lunar surface

  Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.
  
  CBS News - 5h

• Ambitious lunar lander heading to the moon to search for ice

  Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
  
  CBS News - Feb. 26
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  Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Launches on Journey to the Moon

  The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket.
  
  The New York Times - Feb. 27

• Another lunar lander is heading to the moon. Here's what to know about its complex mission.

  SpaceX has launched another lunar lander, named Athena, with the mission to deliver groundbreaking technology to the south pole of the moon. CBS News' Mark Strassmann has more.
  
  CBS News - Feb. 27
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  Marvellous views of Moon captured by private lunar lander

  Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost shuttle will attempt to make a descent on the lunar surface on 2 March.
  
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  A new lunar lander is set to launch to the moon's south pole this week

  A robotic moon lander is about to launch on a SpaceX rocket. It's the second lunar mission for a private company that last year became the first to successfully land on the moon’s surface.
  
  NBC News - Feb. 25
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  New lunar lander set to launch to the Moon’s south pole

  A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore the moon’s south pole. The same rocket will ...
  
  NBC News - Feb. 26

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