An off-Earth future comes into focus

Well, unless you are Odysseus, the privately-launched moon lander that will imminently send its premature final transmission from the Moon’s surface after a botched landing.

But the very fact of a U.S.-sponsored craft (the lander was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines) landing on the Moon for the first time since the Nixon administration reflects the boom that space travel and exploration is currently experiencing. The commercial spaceflight industry is booming; Elon Musk is keeping up a breathtaking pace of rocket launches; a lunar gold rush for natural resources awaits the world’s nations.

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