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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A robotic lander built by a private company suffered a technical problem on its way to the moon on Monday threatening to upend the first U.S. soft lunar landing in over 50 years. The issue with the lander’s propulsion system followed a successful launch of a new Vulcan rocket debuted by a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Space robotics firm Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander launched at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the first flight of Vulcan, a powerful rocket that had been under development for a decade by the Boeing-Lockhee…