2 commercial landers launched for the moon
A pair of commercial landers are headed to the moon after launching early Wednesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood has more.
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SpaceX to launch two lunar landers
Just after midnight Wednesday, a SpaceX rocket is scheduled to lift off, carrying a pair of lunar landers that will try to touch down on the moon in the coming months. One was built by a Japanese company and the other was built by a Texas company. Their mission is to carefully lower to the lunar surface and deliver 10 payloads for NASA.
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