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Texas firm hitches ride with SpaceX to send drone to the moon

Cape Canaveral | A private company launched another lunar lander on Wednesday, aiming to get closer to the moon’s South Pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that never sees the sun.

Intuitive Machines’ lander, named Athena, caught a lift with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. It is taking a fast track to the moon – with a landing on March 6 – while hoping to avoid the fate of its predecessor, which tipped over at touchdown.

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