Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander touched down on the moon's surface.Intuitive Machines / NASANASA and Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission landed on the moon Thursday.This is NASA's first return to the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.The IM-1 mission's landing helps catapult the US into a 21st-century space race to the moon's south pole.An American moon lander touched down on the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years on Thursday.The uncrewed Odysseus lander, made by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines in collaboration with NASA, claimed a major victory not just for the US, but for the space industry at large: It is the first commercial spacecraft to ever land on the moon without crashing.Liftoff of IM-1!