SpaceX Falcon Heavy takes moonlit flight with secret spacecraft

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., ...

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