{"id":115104,"date":"2020-10-26T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-picks-intuitive-machines-to-land-an-ice-mining-drill-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2020-10-26T01:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:23:58","slug":"nasa-picks-intuitive-machines-to-land-an-ice-mining-drill-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-picks-intuitive-machines-to-land-an-ice-mining-drill-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"NASA picks Intuitive Machines to land an ice-mining drill on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-picks-intuitive-machines-to-land-an-ice-mining-drill-on-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the #polar Resources #IceMining Experiment (PRIME-1) #drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the #Moon by December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The ice drilling #mission is the Houston-based company\u2019s second Moon contract award under NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.<\/p>\n<p>#space #spaceexploration #spaceindustry #newspace #spaceeconomy #spacetechnology #spacesector #Spacemining<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA has tapped the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines to land an ice-mining drill on the south pole of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\" target=\"_blank\">the moon<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, NASA will pay Intuitive Machines $47 million to deliver the space agency\u2019s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) to the moon\u2019s south pole. It is the first-ever mission designed to harvest water ice from inside the moon, NASA officials said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41590-moon-water-ice-discovery-thrills-researchers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Moon ice<\/a> is a resource NASA hopes to exploit under its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis program<\/a>, which aims to return astronauts to the moon in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the #polar Resources #IceMining Experiment (PRIME-1) #drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the #Moon by December 2022. The ice drilling #mission is the Houston-based company\u2019s second Moon contract award under NASA\u2019s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. #space #spaceexploration #spaceindustry #newspace #spaceeconomy #spacetechnology #spacesector #Spacemining NASA has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}