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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on August 28, 2013, 1827 UTC
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For the first time, a spacecraft is to be launched from Virginia to the moon.
The launch is scheduled for Sept. 6 from NASA’s facility at Wallops Island on Virginia’s Atlantic coast.
If all follows the plan, and the clouds cooperate, the 11:27 p.m. launch should be visible in Washington and in much of the Northeast.
The mission will not land on the moon, but it is intended to go into orbit around it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/wallops-island-to-launch-rocket-to-moon/2013/08/25/2932ec28-0dd4-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/wallops-island-to-launch-rocket-to-moon/2013/08/25/2932ec28-0dd4-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html)
Mission info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ladee/main/index.html#.Uh5A5-CQmz8
The Wallops Island site has a nice map here:
(http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ladee_l-60-day_visibility_map_0.jpg?itok=lCEuqHS7)