Intuitive Machines is on the moon again — and again there is some drama.
The Houston-based company’s second lunar lander, named Athena, touched down at the Mons Mouton region of the moon’s south pole yesterday, but t wasn’t a picture-perfect landing. While Athena is sending data home to Earth and generating power on the lunar surface, the spacecraft does not seem to have landed fully upright as planned.
“We don’t believe we’re in the correct attitude on the surface of the moon yet again,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said in a post-landing press conference this afternoon.
