The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) latest mission to the moon is on its way, returning a blazing light to the Florida sky shortly after sunset on Feb. 26.
Intuitive Machines’s Athena lunar lander lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:16 p.m ET. The lunar lander made a clean separation from the Falcon rocket at approximately 8:01 p.m. ET. It will take about a week to reach the moon for a scheduled landing near the moon’s south pole on March 6.
