What’s happened?
A spacecraft called Odysseus landed in a crater near the south pole of the Moon late last month, opening up a new chapter in the history of lunar exploration. It was the first US spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon in more than half a century (the last was the Apollo 17 crewed mission in 1972). Even more significantly, the robotic lander is financed, built and operated by a private business, the Houston-based start-up Intuitive Machines, rather than a national space agency. The craft, also known as the Nova-C lander, was launched from Nasa’s Kennedy
