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In a historic moment echoing the Apollo era, the United States has once again set foot on the moon with the successful landing of the unmanned Odysseus spacecraft, operated by Houston-based company...

The mission was carried out in joint effort by SpaceX, NASA and Intuitive Machines.

The Odysseus mission marks the first controlled descent to the moon's surface by a US spaceship since Apollo 17 in 1972. The company behind the mission said flight controllers received a signal from the moon lander.

A private lander touched down on the moon Thursday but managed just a weak signal back, as flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact with the first U.S. spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years.

A private U.S. lunar lander touched down on the moon, but contact with the craft was weak, company officials said.

The Odysseus spacecraft made by Houston-based Intuitive Machines has successfully landed on the surface of the moon.

A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back as flight controllers scrambled to

A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector

Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company behind the Odysseus lunar lander, has moved the projected landing time yet again.

For the first time since the Apollo era, an American spaceship has landed on the Moon: an uncrewed commercial robot, funded by NASA to pave the way for US astronauts to return to Earths cosmic neighbor later this decade.