# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Gg4R_v1z4
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- **Posted:** 2024-02-08T21:34:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

A Valentine to the Moon 💕⁣
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The second Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) delivery is launching to the Moon in mid-February. Designated IM-1, the launch is the Intuitive Machine’s first for NASA’s CLPS initiative, which oversees industry development, testing, and launch of small robotic landers and rovers supporting #Artemis.⁣
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Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander is expected to touch down near Malapert A, a lunar impact crater in the Moon’s South Pole region, on Thursday, Feb. 22. Among the items on its lander, the IM-1 mission will carry NASA science and technology instruments focusing on plume-surface interactions, space weather/lunar surface interactions, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, and a communication and navigation node for future autonomous navigation technologies.⁣
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The IM-1 mission launch is targeted for a multi-day launch window that opens no earlier than 12:57 a.m. EST on Feb. 14 from Launch Complex 39A at NASAKennedy Space Center in Florida.⁣
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Image description: The IM-1 lunar lander stands lit in a room in front of the U.S. Flag, which hangs on a wall. IM-1 is largely white, with copper-colored covering, black and red solar arrays, a yellow stand.⁣
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Credit: Intuitive Machines⁣
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#STEM #Moon #LunarLanding #LunarLander #NASA #Launch #Valentine

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