marking the United States' first return since Apollo 17 and the first commercial lunar lander to transmit valuable science data of each NASA payload from the lunar surface," Intuitive Machines ...

Were astronauts to step foot on the moon as early as 2027 under NASA's Artemis campaign, they'd be the first Americans to do so in five decades since the space agency's Apollo era came to an end ...

below the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers, who got it caked all over their spacesuits and equipment.