Catch a Glimpse of NASA’s Moon Probe Launch Friday Along U.S. East Coast

If you happen to live along or near the Mid-Atlantic seaboard and your sky is clear late Friday night, you will have a good chance to catch a glimpse of a rocket that will be sending a NASA space probe to the moon.

The spacecraft is NASA’s small, car-sized Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere, as well as moon dust conditions near the surface.

The LADEE spacecraft is slated to blast off at 11:27 p.m. EDT, when it will light up the night over its launch pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. It should be visible along large portions of the U.S. East Coast for observers who have clear skies and know where to look Read more…

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