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Double moonshot mission begins as lunar landers blast off on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

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Firefly Aerospace and Japan 's ispace are the latest private missions to try to land on the moon.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA 's Kennedy Space Centre in the middle of the night.

Blue Ghost will take about 45 days to get to the moon's Mare Crisium , where it will conduct experiments for NASA .

Resilience and Blue Ghost are designed to work for one lunar day - equivalent to 14 Earth days .

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