Athena Lander Mission Ends

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Intuitive Machines' Athena space craft declared dead after landing sideways in a crater on the moon

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Athena missed its planned landing mark by over 800 feet and landed sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole on Thursday afternoon .

This was the second privately owned robotic lander to land on the moon in the last year .

Athena was expected to deploy a rover called the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) This was supposed to search the moon for water and analyze lunar soil.

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