Intuitive Machines’ Next Step, Toward A Crewed Lunar Mission…

NASA is live casting the liftoff — and orbital burns, of this private Moon mission. Last year’s backgrounder, here.

It is uncrewed, but here you go — underway now, about 45 minutes in, as I join it:

…Liftoff! At 7:16 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 26, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander, Athena, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida….

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