By Charlie Jones A US spacecraft has landed on the moon for the first time since 1972. A private lunar lander reached the moon and eased into a low orbit on Thursday at 5.23 pm local time before landing near the Moon’s south pole. It is the first private outfit to successfully carry out a moon landing. “We are on the surface,” said Tim Crain, the chief technology officer who is leading mission control. “Odysseus has a new home.” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gleefully called the IM-1 mission a “triumph” and a “giant leap forward for all of humanity,” seemingly ripping a page out the book of N…