SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket launched Friday morning, flying a NASA mission that is bound for a distant asteroid. #NASA #SpaceX #FalconHeavy

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a robotic spacecraft to the moon early Thursday, setting up a landing on Feb. 22, which — if successful — would be the first soft landing on the moon for the United States since the last of the Apollo missions and the first commercial vehicle to touch down on the lunar surface.