SpaceX Launches IM-2 Mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex-39A at 0017 UTC (on Feb. 27), carrying Athena and NASA's ride-along Lunar Trailblazer orbiter aloft against a darkening sky at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. Athena was built by the Houston-based spaceflight company Intuitive Machines.