Intuitive Machines opens Lunar Production and Operations Center in Houston

Intuitive Machines opened its Lunar Production and Operations Center. Located at the Houston Spaceport in Houston, Texas, the Intuitive Machines Lunar Production and Operations Center represents a new lunar access capability for the United States, NASA, and global commercial partners. Construction on the site began in June 2021, with the now completed facility ready to support each of Intuitive Machines’ three NASA-awarded missions. Designed to support each of the company’s four core business units, the Lunar Production and Operations Center serves as the bridge between the Earth and the Moon, enabling sustainable, safe, and efficient human and robotic space exploration. At a press conference, Intuitive Machines confirmed its first mission lunar lander, Nova-C, will be shipped from the new facility in the coming days ahead of its upcoming launch. The mission to deliver NASA and commercial payloads to the Moon’s south pole marks the United States’ first attempted soft landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.