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Intuitive Machines Stock was up almost 50% in early trading Friday after the company’s lunar lander touched down on the moon on Thursday evening.

The latest landing on the moon represents the first controlled descent to the lunar surface by a US spacecraft since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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.

After nearly 50 years, an American spacecraft landed on the moon Thursday, marking a crucial milestone in NASA's efforts to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface as part of its ambitious space exploration agenda.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander has no humans on board, but its arrival marks the first time US scientists have conducted a Moon trip since 1972.

 

Intuitive Machines successfully landed its spacecraft on the moons south pole in a historic mission that puts the U.S. back on lunar soil for the first time in over 50 years.

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

A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years,