A Texas-based flight company has made history after becoming the first to land a privately owned spacecraft on the Moon. The Nova-C Odysseus lander, built by Texas-based spaceflight company ...

Odysseus is the first American spacecraft to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, and the first private one ever to successfully set down there in one piece. However, during the landing on ...

Odysseus, the first U.S.-built spacecraft ... India and Japan – have successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon. A Japanese spacecraft landed on the moon in January, but when it hit the ...

the last time an American spacecraft last landed on the moon. But this week, that long drought ended when an unmanned American spacecraft called Odysseus, or “Odie” for short, successfully ...

Early indications were that the spacecraft was successfully using the ... The US is aiming to land the Odysseus spacecraft near the moon’s South Pole — an area where both the US and China ...

Each of those missions were unmanned, however, as only the United States has successfully landed humans on the Moon. While the achievement of Odysseus mission does not equal that of the Apollo 11 ...