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The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.

We knew it would be somewhere in that region that extended out either side of the moon's orbit. As more observations come that uncertainty region narrows." Now the Earth is outside of the ...