Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines\u2019 Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 26 as part of NASA\u2019s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The IM-2 launch is carrying NASA science, technology demonstrations, and other commercial payloads to Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau to advance our understanding of the Moon and planetary processes, while paving the way for future crewed missions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines\u2019 Nova-C lunar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-scaled.jpeg",2560,1655,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-300x194.jpeg",300,194,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-768x496.jpeg",640,413,true],"large":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-1024x662.jpeg",640,414,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-1536x993.jpeg",1536,993,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-2048x1324.jpeg",2048,1324,true],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-1024x662.jpeg",1024,662,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ksc-20250226-ph-csh01-0002orig-1-UeNER2-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Noticlic"]},"category_info":"Science<\/a> Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticlic.mx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}