Malapert A crater, lunar south pole. The Odysseus probe lands on the lunar surface. After touching down, it falls onto its side, but its instruments remain functional, and the first photos will arrive a few days later. The Texas-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines, which developed Odysseus, confirmed that the spacecraft landed within 1.5 kilometers of the planned landing site of Malapert A, the southernmost point any vehicle has ever landed on the Moon. The mission is known as Intuitive Machines Mission 1 (IM-1). It is the first private mission to successfully achieve a controlled lunar landing.
