SpaceX rocket blasts off carrying Intuitive Machines’ moon lander

A SpaceX rocket carrying a lunar lander from Intuitive Machines blasted off Thursday morning from Florida in the latest attempt to put an American spacecraft on the moon since the last crewed Apollo mission more than 50 years ago. 

The Houston-based company’s Nova-C lander, also referred to as Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. on a Falcon 9 rocket departing NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The launch unfolded after a lunar lander from Astrobotic Technology encountered propulsion difficulties during a mission in January and failed to reach t