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Business Matters: US firm becomes first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon

US firm becomes first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon

23/02/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US firm becomes first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon

US private company lands a spacecraft on the Moon

US firm Intuitive Machines has made history by becoming the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon

The Houston-based company hopes to send another spacecraft in March. We discuss what this means other private firms hoping to explore space 

Google fixes its new AI-powered tool for creating pictures, after claims it was over-correcting against the risk of being racist. We hear from a former Google executive about the new challenges facing technology companies. 

Shares in chipmaker Nvidia surge. We hear what is behind the biggest ever stock rally in the company's history.

(Picture:Computer generated image (CGI) issued by Intuitive Machines of an artist's impression of Intuitive Machine's Nova-C Odysseus lander. Credit NASA PA News)

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