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NASA gives Intuitive Machines $117 million for 2027 mission to moon's south pole

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NASA has awarded Houston -based company a $116.9 million deal to carry six agency science instruments to the lunar south pole in 2027 .

Intuitive Machines' first lunar landing, Odysseus , touched down near the moon's south pole this past February .

IM-2 will head toward the south polar region as well; it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1) that will hunt for water ice.