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Blue Ghost was nan first backstage lunar lander to not clang aliases autumn over. Athena fared little well

The legs of a lander against nan blackness of space, nan satellite astatine little left

The Athena lander, built by Texas institution Intuitive Machines, orbited nan satellite up of its effort to onshore connected March 6.

Intuitive Machines

By Lisa Grossman

March 6, 2025 astatine 2:15 pm

Updated March 7, 2025 astatine 11:20 am

This year’s basking destination is nan moon. Two landers built by backstage companies conscionable touched down connected nan satellite wrong a week of each other. One landed softly and safely — a first for immoderate backstage spacecraft — while nan different did not.

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