It’s been more than 50 years since America has been to the moon, and a new private company is aiming to change that this week. The Houston company, called Intuitive Machines, hitched a lander called Odysseus to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is scheduled to land on the moon’s south pole this week. The mission hopes to shed light on the feasibility of using the moon as a base for further space exploration. Read more from NPR.