Spacecraft launched from Florida could land near Moon’s South Pole Thursday
A new piece of U.S. technology is set to land on the Moon on Thursday.
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It comes after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center last week.
The rocket carried what could be the first American spacecraft to land on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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It should touch down near the Moon’s south pole around 5:30 p.m. and help carry out a host of NASA experiments.
NASA wants to know if the South Pole could be a good place for future manned missions to the Moon.
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Should this mission succeed, it would mark an important first step in exploring not just the Moon, but also points far beyond.
Channel 9 will have live coverage of the attempted Moon landing on Eyewitness News.
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