A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole on Thursday‚ the first U.S. touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the private sector. NASA‚ with several research instruments aboard the vehicle‚ hailed the landing as a major achievement in its goal of sending a squad of commercially flown spacecraft on scientific scouting missions to the moon ahead of a planned return of astronauts...