"Odysseus has found its new home."⁠ ⁠ After an eight day journey (and a nail-biting communications error at the finish line), Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines has touched down on the lunar surface. ⁠ ⁠ In partnership with NASA and SpaceX, Intuitive's lunar lander named "Odysseus" took off last Thursday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. ⁠ ⁠ The lander is carrying NASA science equipment as it spends a week collecting data just off the moon's south pole. ⁠ ⁠ The landing is historic on multiple fronts: it's the first time a private company has landed on the moon, and it marks the first US lunar landing since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. ⁠ ⁠ Overall, the operation is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Service program (CLPS), responsible for working with private companies to develop moon landers. Intuitive was awarded $118 million by NASA to complete the trip. ⁠ 📸 : Intuitive Machines ⁠ #nasa #technews #space #sciencenews #business #businessnews #privatesec...