Privately Built Vulcan Rocket Launches at Cape Canaveral to Send Spacecraft to Moon
The United Launch Alliance sent its powerful Vulcan rocket into space for the first time to send a robotic lander named Peregrine to the moon.
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The United Launch Alliance, a collaboration of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, launched its Vulcan Centaur rocket today into space for the first time, which will send off the first private spacecraft to land on the moon, Peregrine, according to Space.com.
The Alliance, which aims to "brings the utmost precision, passion and purpose to one of the most technically complex, critical American needs: affordable, reliable access to space," launched the Vulcan Centaur rocket early Monday morning.
According to John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic Technology, which created the Peregrine spacecraft being launched at the moon by the Vulcan Centaur, "this spacecraft will be the spacecraft that will carry customer payloads to the moon on our first mission, and many more thereafter."
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