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Athena Moon Lander Set for Historic Lunar South Pole Touchdown

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Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena is scheduled to land near the south pole of the moon on Thursday at 11:32 AM EST. Following its entry into lunar orbit on Monday after a 8-day journey from Earth, Athena will perform a final engine burn over the far side of the moon, slowing its descent to 2.2 mph.

  1. GB
    Nicky Fox
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    1. It kind of feels like this mission is straight out of one of our favorite sci-fi movies.

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sources

  1. 1.CTV News
  2. 2.France 24
  3. 3.The Times of India
  4. 4.Agence France-Presse

perspectives

  1. 1.Aerospace Industry
  2. 2.US space industry
  3. 3.Space Race

countries

  1. 1.JapanJP

organizations

  1. 1.Intuitive Machines
  2. 2.National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUS
  3. 3.Firefly AerospaceUS
  4. 4.Nokia
  5. 5.Nokia Bell Labs
  6. 6.SpaceXUS
  7. 7.Twitter/XUS

persons

  1. 1.Donald TrumpUS
  2. 2.Elon MuskUS
  3. 3.Grace Hopper
  4. 4.Nicky FoxGB

technicals

  1. 1.Moon
  2. 2.Athena
  3. 3.Will and Grace
  4. 4.Blue Ghost
  5. 5.Artemis
  6. 6.Mars
  7. 7.Apollo 17
  8. 8.AstroAnt
  9. 9.Falcon 9
  10. 10.IM-1
  11. 11.Ingenuity
  12. 12.Odysseus ROV
Athena Moon Lander Set for Historic Lunar South Pole Touchdown