Intuitive Machines

Intuitive Machines, Inc.

Lunar Operations Facility at Houston Spaceport
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: LUNR
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Founders	Steve Altemus Kam Ghaffarian Tim Crain
Headquarters	Houston, Texas , U.S.
Key people	Kam Ghaffarian (chairman)[1] Steve Altemus (president and CEO)[1]
Products	Lunar lander, Mission Control Center, Ground stations, additive manufacturing
Number of employees	400[2] (2024)
Website	intuitivemachines.com

Intuitive Machines, Inc. is an American space exploration company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 2013 by Stephen Altemus, Kam Ghaffarian, and Tim Crain,^[3] to provide commercial and government exploration of the Moon. Today the company offers lunar surface access for transportation and payload delivery, data transmission services, and infrastructure-as-a-service.^{[not verified in body]} Intuitive Machines holds three NASA contracts under the space agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to deliver payloads to the lunar surface. Intuitive Machines is one of three companies selected by NASA to advance Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) capabilities.^{[not verified in body]}

Intuitive Machines, LLC, went public in February 2023 after merging with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company. The company is incorporated in Delaware, and trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol, LUNR.^[4]

Intuitive Machines' Lunar Payload Delivery Services (LPDS) program seeks to open commercial access to the Moon. NASA selected Intuitive Machines' LPDS program for four lunar missions, one of which landed the first American spacecraft to the surface of the Moon since the Apollo Program, and the first spacecraft to reach the lunar south pole region.^{[not verified in body]}