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you're live with bbc news. to the united states now where final preparations are under way for the launch of a spacecraft which will attempt to land on the moon. that would be intersting enough in itself, but the rocket is also carrying some rather bizarre cargo, emily brown explains. after nearly a decade of planning and testing, the first american spacecraft set to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years. this is the new partnership between nasser and private industry united launch alliance. this is their vulcan centaur. it's a private competitor to elon musk�*s space x, and it's set to take off from cape canaveral space force station. the rocket is carrying astrobotic peregrine one, and that aims to be the first us craft to make a soft lunar landing since the apollo programme. let's take a look at the rocket in more detail. we know it has a height of nearly 62 metres, a diameter of 5.4 metres, and a total mass of more than