[HIGHLIGHTS] Odysseus attempts to make history as the first spacecraft from a private company to successfully land on the Moon

The Nova-C unmanned module from the company Intuitive Machines will attempt to land on the moon this Thursday near the south pole. The United States would thus return to the Moon half a century later.

If the landing is successful, Odysseus will go down in history as the first commercial spacecraft on the Moon. Only the space agencies of the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, India and Japan have successfully carried out a controlled moon landing. The mission is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Cargo Services program, created by the space administration to support lunar landings by private companies.