Never before have so many spacecraft angled for the moon’s surface all at once. Last month, U.S. and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth's sidekick.

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Intuitive Machines out of Texas is sending a second lunar lander, this time Athena, to the moon, where it will drill for water, ice and other gases.

The spacecraft will travel for about a week before landing near the moon’s south pole. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:17 p.m ...

Known as Athena, this Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander is poised to launch to the moon no earlier than 7:02 p.m. Wednesday ...

Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft from Intuitive Machines was launched eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sharing the ride to space were three other spacecraft: a moon-bound NASA ...

The lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. If all goes well, Intuitive Machines 2 (IM-2) would land on the moon around March 6 in area known as Mons Mouton. On its way to the moon ...