Moon landing: US clinches first touchdown in 50 years #new #update

$Feb 23 (Reuters) - A spacecraft built and #flown by Texas-based company Intuitive #Machines landed near the moon's south #pole on Thursday, the first U.S. touchdown @on the lunar surface in more than half a #century and the first ever achieved by the @private sector.
@NASA, with several research instruments aboard the vehicle, hailed the landing as a major achievement in its goal of sending a #squad of commercially flown spacecraft #on #scientific scouting missions to the moon #ahead of a planned return of astronauts #there later this decade.