As a former Intuitive Machines employee, I feel obligated to correct the title! IM-1 landed on the moon last February and although it didn't stay upright, it was still operational and returned some decent scientific data.
Getting to the moon at all is a huge accomplishment.
The article actually mentioned IM-1 (though not by name) and got me looking.
How cool is it to have your work preserved for thousands to millions of years, on the surface of the moon?!
I cannot imagine much anything more fun.
Jokes apart, I think anybody getting anything off the ground and out of the planetary gravity well are heroes. It's kind of wild how... mundane... rocketry has become. Between that and always-on nearly-free global video calling from a smart watch, I feel like I'm living in the future of some of the 1950s SciFi books I read as a kid.
"Kings of Space" by Capt. W. E. Johns comes to mind. The smell of that old paperback copy I have transports me to another time.