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    First privately owned spacecraft lands successfully on the Moon

    by Mike Bedigan Feb 23, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: Intuitive Machines

    A Texas-based flight company has made history after becoming the first to land a privately owned spacecraft on the Moon.

    The Nova-C Odysseus lander, built by Texas-based spaceflight company Intuitive Machines (IM), landed on the Moon’s south pole region on Thursday. It was aiming to land on Malapert A, a crater 186 miles from the Moon’s south pole.

    Odysseus is also the Moon landing since the final mission of the Apollo programme, Apollo 17, more than 50 years ago.

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