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A privately built spacecraft is about to attempt a moon landing

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Texas -based Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost will attempt to land on the moon on Sunday morning .

It's the second privately built vehicle to land in spaceflight history.

Blue Ghost is expected to spend about two weeks gathering data on the lunar surface.

The mission is part of NASA ’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which aims to eventually return humans to the moon.

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