By Bernadette Berdychowski | Denver Gazette
In a mission control center in Arvada, Lunar Outpost CEO Justin Cyrus was in “game mode” gearing up for Thursday’s big lunar landing day.
“I don’t really celebrate until the job’s done,” he said during a ceremony Wednesday to debut the new mission control facility.
The Golden-based company founded in 2017 built a rover onboard Intuitive Machine’s Athena lander to explore the moon’s south pole and execute a symbolic first commercial sale of lunar regolith — the material making up the moon’s surface.