'Odysseus' lander sets course for 1st commercial moon landing following SpaceX launch

The privately-built "Odysseus" lander is officially on its way to the moon with the goal of becoming the first commercial U.S. vehicle to ever land on the lunar surface. The probe hitched a ride to orbit aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched at 1:05 a.m. ET Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch, which had been delayed from Wednesday due to an error with the rocket's methane fuel, comes little over a month after another American company's lander tried – and failed –...