Privately Owned Spacecraft Moon 2024. A lunar lander built by a us spaceflight company has become the first privately owned spacecraft to land on the moon. Thursday’s landing represented the first controlled descent to the lunar surface by a us spacecraft since apollo 17 in 1972, when nasa’s last crewed moon.
Thursday’s landing represented the first controlled descent to the lunar surface by a us spacecraft since apollo 17 in 1972, when nasa’s last crewed moon. The odysseus lander, built by intuitive machines and supported by nasa, is the first privately owned spacecraft to land on the moon.