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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Another commercial company is trying to become the first to land on the moon with a planned overnight launch atop a SpaceX rocket that could bring another sonic boom to Central Florida. A Falcon 9 is slated to lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 12:57 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday on the IM-1 mission for Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which is flying its first of three contracted missions so far under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program. The first-stage booster for the mission is making its 18th flight, and will attempt a recov…

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