CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE — Intuitive Machines became the first private commercial company to land a spacecraft successfully on the moon on Thursday evening with its IM-1 mission. At around 6:24 p.m.

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 ...