Intuitive Machines, Inc. is an American space exploration company headquartered in Houston, Texas, founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, Kam Ghaffarian and Tim Crain to provide commercial and government exploration of the Moon. It offers lunar surface access for transportation and payload delivery, data transmission services and infrastructure as a service, and NASA has awarded it five lunar surface delivery task orders through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The company went public in February 2023 by merging with the special-purpose acquisition company Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., is incorporated in Delaware, and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LUNR. Its Odysseus lander reached the lunar surface in February 2024.
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Intuitive Machines, LLC, went public in February 2023 after merging with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company.
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It was founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, Kam Ghaffarian, and Tim Crain, to provide commercial and government exploration of the Moon.
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Founded By: Kam Ghaffarian, Career: co-founding of Intuitive MachinesQuote, Founded By: Kam Ghaffarian, Career: co-founding of Intuitive Machines
He also co-founded a space exploration company Intuitive Machines in 2013.
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