‘Odysseus’ successfully launches in attempt to put first private lander on the moon

Second time was a charm for a Houston-based company that launched a privately built moon lander into space early Thursday.The spacecraft, developed by Intuitive Machines, lifted off at 1:05 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The lander rode into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The launch was originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday, but a glitch with the rocket’s methane fuel forced SpaceX to stand down.Intuitive Machines is aiming to become the first to land a commercially built spacecraft on the lunar surface. If successful, it would also…

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