Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

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Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered lunar orbit.“The countdown to lunar landing has now officially begun,” the company said in a statement.SpaceX launched Resilience with U.S-based Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander in January. Firefly got there first in March, becoming the first private outfit to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon without crashing or falling over. Another American company, Intuitive Machines, landed a spacecraft on the moon a few days later, but it ended up sideways ..