50 years after the success of the Apollo mission, the United States' Chandrayaan has started its journey to the moon again. Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday.

Falcon-9 will have to travel 230,000 miles to reach the moon. If everything goes well, the rover will land on the surface of the moon on February 22. It will orbit the moon for a day before landing.

Houston-based space research company Initiative Machines is managing the mission called 'IM-1'.

Another company recently failed in its attempt to land on the moon. The Chandrayaan, made by astrobiotic technology, fell into the Pacific Ocean after 10 days of space travel.

Steve Antemus, CEO and co-founder of Initiative Machines, said they spent many sleepless nights preparing the rover for mission. The lander, the part of the rover that will go to the surface of the moon, is named after Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem 'The Odyssey'.

"Run at the speed of God, Odysseus," said Trent Martin, vice president of Initiative Machines. Continue to make history.

In 1969, the United States Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time. Half a century later, no other US lunar probe has landed on the moon.