America returns spaceship to the Moon, a private sector first For the first time since the Apollo era, an American spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon. The unmanned commercial robot named Odysseus, developed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines and funded by NASA, touched down near the lunar south pole at 2323 GMT on Thursday. The final descent was tense, requiring flight controllers to switch to an experimental landing system, and it took several minutes to establish radio contact after landing. NASA administrator Bill Nelson expressed the significance of this achievement,…
America returns spaceship to the Moon
