The M1 mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the latest attempt to make history.

Scheduled to lift off just before 1 a.m. Eastern on Valentine's Day,

if all goes according to plan,

Intuitive machines Nova Sea Lunar Lander

will begin its journey to the moon,

where on February 22nd, it will try to soft land.

If successful, the lander, named Odysseus, would become the first commercial spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface, and the first hailing from the U.S. since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Intuitive machines is contracted for the mission with NASA,

transporting government and private payloads

under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program,

or clips.

It follows privately held startup

astrobotics failed attempt under the same program last month when

Paragreen suffered a fuel leak that derailed that spacecraft's own planned trip.

Intuitive Machine CEO and President Steve Altimus says years of development and

testing went into this milestone moment.

You know the challenge for this first mission was to do a soft landing on the moon with NASA experiments

and do it in about a four-year time frame as much times as it takes to get an

undergraduate education and do it fixed price for about a hundred million dollars.

And so right there is if you can hit that target, there's a beginning of unit economics that can

work for a business. Intuitive machines is publicly traded.

It's a small cap stock with a market valuation of roughly half a billion dollars

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