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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.