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Intuitive Machines completes the first ever lunar touchdown by a privately built spacecraft.

Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed its Odysseus robot near the lunar south pole.

(Reuters) -- A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the south pole of the moon on Thursday, the first U.S.

Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years

A private lander touched down on the moon Thursday but managed just a weak signal back

Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it had landed.

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

Odysseus is also the first US-made craft to reach the moon since the Apollo missions., Technology & Science News, Times Now

Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) becomes the first company to return on the Moon and its stock soars as a result.

Flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact with the first U.S. spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years.