By Karen Morfitt | CBS Colorado
Following a successful launch of Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the team from Colorado-based Lunar Outpost was back to work.
“About 20 seconds after that rocket SpaceX Falcon 9 cleared the launchpad, you saw people running out of the bleachers to get over to mission control and to start checking on our system,” said Michael Moreno, Vice President of Strategy for Lunar Outpost.
The lander is expected to reach the moon’s surface on Thursday. Onboard is Lunar Outpost’s exploration rover MAPP, or mobile autonomous prospecting platform.