Watch as the SpaceX rocket explodes to the Moon

A SpaceX rocket has blasted off from Florida carrying two privately built lunar landers and a micro-rover to the Moon.

The unmanned Falcon 9 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.

Later on Wednesday, SpaceX is expected to conduct the seventh flight test of the Starship rocket. It completed a world first last year after part of it was captured as it returned to the launch pad.

This comes just days after the launch of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket was delayed due to a “problem with the vehicle subsystem”.