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US company Intuitive Machines will attempt to make the first successful commercial moon landing with the launch of its lander planned for Wednesday morning. With the help of a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musks aerospace company SpaceX, the Nova-C lander is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday at 12:57 am (0557 GMT), according to Intuitive Machines. Intuitive Machines is hoping for a moon landing on February 22. It would be the first albeit unmanned US moon landing since the Apollo missions over 50 years ago and the first commercial landing on the mo