Private lunar lander Athena fails mission after sideways landing in moon crater, ending $62 million NASA experiment.

Intuitive Machines collected some data for NASA before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday.

The Intuitive Machines' Nova-C "Odysseus" lander has delivered its first image from the surface of the moon. Also, see the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the lander from moon orbit.

The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.

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A sideways and off-target landing has brought Intuitive Machines’ lunar mission to an early end — the second such mishap for ...

Intuitive Machine's lander toppled over inside a crater on the Moon's south pole after making its landing attempt this week.

Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.