NASA is back on the moon — with the first commercial lunar landing ever

• NASA and Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission landed on the moon Thursday.
• This is NASA's first return to the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
• The IM-1 mission's landing helps catapult the US into a 21st-century space race to the moon's south pole.

An American moon lander touched down on the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years on Thursday.