including one that led to a now-famous thought experiment involving a version of the Orgasmatron – although this being philosophy, Nozick’s version has less sex. He called it the “Experience Machine”.

The mission’s origins date to October 2020, when NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a $47 million contract to deliver its 88-pound (40 kg) Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1 ...

The latest contender is a standout: The spacecraft, called Athena, was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines ... the moon as part of a NASA-sponsored experiment spearheaded by Nokia.

Intuitive Machines CEO Trent Martin spoke excitedly about the hopper, emphasizing that such drones could complement rovers in future missions going "down into extreme environments where you can't ...

Intuitive Machines engineers named the IM-2 lander "Athena," which will carry NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment payload, dubbed PRIME-1 by NASA, to the polar region where ice might be ...

SpaceX will try to launch an Intuitive Machines lunar lander this evening. Eight days later, Intuitive Machines will attempt to land its Nova-C lander, named Athena, on the moon. NASA paid ...

transcript Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water.

Produces the best guess These advances pave the way for the next generation of Ising machines, an alternative to quantum computers that require much less energy and can operate at room temperature.

The IM-2 lander, called Athena by Intuitive Machines, is carrying NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1) payload as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

Intuitive Machines Athena lander launches on SpaceX rocket Instruments onboard to study moon's surface material DENVER, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on ...

Manufactured by Intuitive Machines, the hopper is named Grace ... That dual instrument, known as Prime-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment,) will drill down about three feet below the lunar ...