First Commercial Moon Landing

February 23, 2024

An American moon lander named ‘Odysseus’ touched down on the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years.
This is NASA’s first return to the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
The uncrewed Odysseus lander, was made by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines in collaboration with NASA.
It is the first commercial spacecraft to ever land on the moon without crashing.
Odysseus launched atop a SpaceX rocket on February 14, carrying 12 payloads — six of them belonging to private companies and six of them science experiments for NASA.
The spacecraft traveled 620,000 miles to aim for its destination: a crater in the moon’s south pole.