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Odysseus has now officially made history with its successful lunar touchdown and none of it could have happened without some fast work from engineers on the ground and a breath-catching save from a NASA payload.
After a tense touchdown process with last-minute changes, U.S.-based company Intuitive Machines received a signal from its uncrewed Odysseus lunar lander on Thursday evening
The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed "Odie" or IM-1, will attempt to land on the moon on Thursday, marking the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the moon in five decades. Follow for live news updates.