US pulls off first moon landing since 1972 with spacecraft Odysseus | News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 23, 2024
Odysseus is the first spacecraft built by a private company to land on the lunar surface.
The United States has pulled off its first lunar landing in more than half a century with a spacecraft built and operated by a Texas-based private company.
Odysseus, an uncrewed robot lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines with funding from NASA, touched down near the lunar south pole at around 23:23 GMT, the company announced in a webcast on Thursday.
The successful landing followed a tense final descent . . .
