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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lander on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, made the first US touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact.

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

Shares of Intuitive Machines surged in early trading on Friday after the company's successful first moon landing.

The Odysseus lander has made the first American moon landing since the end of the Apollo program more than 50 years ago, pulling of a soft landing near the south pole.

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 Earth's cosmic neighbor later this decade.

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NASA has released a video showing the nail-biting moment crews were told a lander had successfully touched down on the Moon, marking the first US landing in over five decades

A probe from the American company Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon on Thursday February 22, marking the first moon landing of an American device since 1972. The moon landing took place at 5:23 p.m. Houston time, Texas, where the company's control room is located. The Nova-C lander, which notably transports NASA scientific instruments, measures a little over four meters high. The descent was the most feared stage of the mission, codenamed IM-1. During the final descent, the probe was com...

Intuitive Machines (ticker: LUNR) stock surges Friday after the company’s lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday evening.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- 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 until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact.