A company is returning to the moon. Heres how it will avoid tipping again

When Intuitive Machines became the first private space company to land on the moon, it was hailed as successful, despite its spacecraft breaking a leg and falling to its side. Now, as the Houston-based company seeks to repeat the journey, its executives say they've made improvements to their new spacecraft, Athena, that should help it avoid the problems that impacted the mission in 2024. "Landing on the moon is extremely difficult," Trent Martin, senior vice president of Intuitive Mach