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Privately owned spacecraft aims to make Moon landing history

A privately owned spacecraft is on track to make history as it attempts to land on the Moon following a week-long voyage.

The Nova-C Odysseus lander, built by Texas-based space flight company Intuitive Machines (IM), is in lunar orbit and will try to land on the Moon’s south pole region at 10.49pm UK time on Thursday.

If successful, it would

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