Virginia’s Wallops Island to launch spacecraft to moon

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Virginia’s Wallops Island to launch spacecraft to moon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/wallops-island-to-launch-rocket-to-moon/2013/08/25/2932ec28-0dd4-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

By Martin Weil,

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.