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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 Moons 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