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The Odysseus spacecraft has sent back pictures from the far south of the Moon.

(Reuters) -Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since 1972, has roughly 10 to 20 hours of battery life left, according to flight controllers who are still in contact with the robot lander. Texas-based Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday its flight controllers were in touch with the Odysseus moon lander and the spacecraft had relayed payload science data and imagery in the morning. NASA paid Intuitive $118 million to build and fly the spacecraft to the moon, carrying science instruments for the U.S. space agency and several commercial customers.

It has only been a few days since a U.S. company sent a spacecraft to the surface of the moon.

Mission moon: China unveiled the names of a new manned spaceship and a moon lander that is set to send astronauts to the moon before 2030.

A former student of San Diego Mesa College has made history as part of the team that just recently successfully landed a privately owned spacecraft on the moon, the college announced. Not only was Mario Romero part of the team, he named the spacecraft after winning a contest among coworkers.