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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Us mission to make first ever private lunar landing blasts off - Caught on Camera

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United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket with Astrobotic Technology's lander on board is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on January 8, 2024 [NASA via AP]

A mission to put the first commercial craft on the moon appears to be in jeopardy after the spacecraft suffered a “critical loss” of fuel in a major blow to the United States’s hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades.

Vulcan – a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket carrying the robotic lunar lander Peregrine, built by space robotics firm Astrobotic Technology – was launched on Monday at 2:18am (07:18 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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