The first US moon lander since Apollo 17 has taken off from Florida.United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, launched their Vulcan rocket at 2.18am local time at Cape Canaveral.Aboard Vulcan, a 200-foot (60-m) tall rocket with engines made by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, is the Peregrine lunar lander built by space robotics firm Astrobotic.
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00:00 Five, four, three, we have ignition.
00:05 [rocket launching]
00:09 And liftoff of the first United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket,
00:14 launching a new era in spaceflight to the moon and beyond.
00:18 [rocket launching]
00:23 Two good SRBs hitting peak pressure on the SRBs.
00:27 Everything looking good.
00:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]