Intuitive machines made history, becoming the first company to successfully land a private spacecraft on the moon.

The M1 mission carried out as a part of a NASA program was not without drama though.

After a successful SpaceX launch on February 15th and stock surge,

Odysseus made a nail-biting landing a week later.

Then came the disclosure it had tipped on its side.

Shares plunged as on Monday the warning came that the mission would be cut short.

But that didn't happen. On Wednesday the lander was still active and NASA hailed it a success.

Then, last night, Odysseus went to sleep, as the harsh lunar night set in.

The stock is now higher over the past month, but it's down big after tripling halfway through the mission.

CEO and co-founder Steve Altimus says he's now fielding calls from prospective new customers

for intuitive machines, including Japan, Australia, and some

European and Middle Eastern countries. There's also been an outpouring of interest

in terms of sponsorships and people who want to put their name in the history books on the moon.

So I'm interested in seeing how those take shape also.

Sponsorships, what does that mean? What does that look like?

Well, I know we've had this wonderful sponsorship

and relationship with Columbia from Columbia Sportsware and you know they put a

material on the on the lander an insulator and you know we it started as a sponsorship and turned into an

engineering demonstration that actually proved out their their technology for a warm or cold weather gear and it actually turned out to be a great thermal

insulator.

So we're going to move that thermal insulator materials and coatings from Columbia

onto the lander to replace some of the materials

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