Houston Chronicle by Andrea Leinfelder 2/12/2021
The new Intuitive Machines mission control center will resume a long-held Houston tradition: Guiding landers to the surface of the moon.
And while its landers won’t be carrying people, the company’s missions will still be historic.
Houston-based Intuitive Machines will be one of the first companies to own and operate a lunar lander. It’s delivering commercial cargo and NASA-provided payloads to the moon this year, and it will carry a NASA ice-mining experiment to the moon as soon as next year.
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To build its control center, called Nova Control, Intuitive Machines hired an expert from NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
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