<!-- wp:html --><p>A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines LUNR.O landed near the south pole of the moon on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved entirely by the private sector.</p><!-- /wp:html -->
A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines LUNR.O landed near the south pole of the moon on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved entirely by the private sector.