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

He strongly advocated for the SLS rocket after Congress directed NASA to develop it in 2011. "Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about 45 ...

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.