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NASA holds a virtual audio-only media teleconference to highlight the NASA science flying onboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program. Participants include: • Joel Kearns, Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters • Debra Needham, Program Scientist in the Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office, NASA Headquarters • Chris Culbert, Program Manager, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, NASA’s Johnson Space Center • Trent Martin, Vice President for Space Systems of Intuitive Machines, Houston Texas #NASA

NASA Feb 1, 2024 In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. Among the NASA provided payloads will be an instrument called the Radio wave Observation at the Lunar Surface of the photo-Electron Sheath (ROLSES) designed to observe the Moon’s surface environment in radio frequencies, to determine how natural and human-generated activity near the surface interacts with and could interfere with science conducted there. #NASA

NASA Streamed live on Jan 8, 2024 Watch Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket. ULA and Astrobotic are targeting 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 UTC) Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, for the first US commercial robotic launch to the Moon’s surface. The NASA payloads aboard the lander aim to help us develop capabilities needed to explore the Moon under Artemis and in advance of human missions on the lunar surface. #NASA

NASA Streamed live on Jan 6, 2024 NASA holds a virtual audio-only media teleconference to confirm the NASA payloads flying onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program are go for launch. Participants include:  Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for Exploration, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters  Ryan Watkins, program scientist, Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office, NASA Headquarters  John Thornton, CEO, Astrobotic  Gary Wentz, vice president, Government and Commercial Programs, ULA  Melody Lovin, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron

Streamed 1 month ago. NASA holds a virtual media teleconference to highlight the NASA science flying onboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program. Participants include: Paul Niles, project scientist for CLPS, NASA Headquarters Chris Culbert, program manager for CLPS, NASA’s Johnson Space Center Nic Stoffle, science and operations lead for Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer, NASA’s Johnson Space Center Anthony Colaprete, Near-Infrared Volatile Spectrometer System, NASA’s Ames Research Center Richard Elphic, Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), NASA’s Ames Research Center Barbara Cohen, Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Daniel Cremons, deputy principal investigator for the Laser Retroreflector, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Niki Werkheiser, Director of Technology Maturation, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters

Under NASA’s Artemis Program we are going back to the Moon, but this time to stay. Ahead of humans, we want to send as much science and technology as possible and NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative will enable American companies to do something they’ve never done before – land on the Moon. CLPS is meant to provide affordable, rapid and frequent access to the lunar surface and enable American companies to deliver our science experiments and technologies to the lunar surface for us. This unique commercial delivery service is poised to change the way we work and perform science at the Moon, greatly expanding our capabilities for exploration. With any new endeavor there is a new level of risk. With CLPS, NASA has accepted the risk that going through this innovative approach with commercial companies, that there could be some failures. Even with a few failures, CLPS remains an affordable and beneficial approach to lunar exploration. And with every failure comes lessons learned that will improve future missions to come

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the Moon, we will send science and technology instruments ahead of time to lay the foundation for a sustainable human presence. Through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS initiative, we are enabling American companies to send our science experiments and technologies to the lunar surface for us. This unique commercial delivery service is poised to change the way we work and perform science at the Moon, greatly expanding our capabilities for exploration. Learn more about this innovative approach

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