NASA Launch Shoots for the Moon Tonight: Watch Online

NASA will launch a new spacecraft tonight to unlock the mysteries of moon dust and the wispy lunar atmosphere, and you can watch the blastoff live online.

The space agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, nicknamed LADEE, is poised to liftoff atop a brand new Minotaur V rocket from Wallops Island, Va., at 11:27 p.m. EDT in what will be the first-ever lunar mission to launch from Virginia. Weather permitting, the nighttime launch may be visible to millions of observers along a wide swath of the U.S. East Coast that stretches from Maine to North Carolina.

But for observers outside the viewing area, NASA has two webcasts to offer live video views of tonight's planned moon shot. You can watch the LADEE launch live on SPACE.com beginning at 9:30 p.m. EDT, courtesy of NASA TV Read more...