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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A SpaceX Falcon Heavy basked in the near full moonlight on the launch pad, and then took over the light show, blasting on the first of two planned missions from the Space Coast on Thursday night. The powerhouse rocket carried with it the secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on the USSF-52 mission for the Space Force, carving its way into the clear black sky at 8:07 p.m., lifting off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A. A Falcon 9 rocket at adjacent Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was set to lift off less than three hours later on a Starlink mission. Flying for only the ninth t…

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