Tonight's rocket launch should be visible for Mid-Atlantic (7:30-9:30 PM)

[JDawg]

Been keeping an eye on this for a couple days....weather up and down the coast looks pretty ideal for tonight's launch of the lunar orbitor that will be studying the atmosphere of the moon.

For up-to-the-minute updates, especially as things get closer, follow @NASA_Wallops on twitter

http://www.universetoday.com/104515/how-to-see-the-historic-ladee-nightime-moon-shot-on-sept-6/

 

[RJKarl]

 

[TWDeac]

Bummer. I got some sweet binoculars for my birthday that would have been prefect for this

 

[JDawg]

Bummer. I got some sweet binoculars for my birthday that would have been prefect for this

If you leave now, you'll be in Baltimore with a few hours to spare. We'll watch from my roof and I'll buy you dinner.

 

[JDawg]

seeing that orange ball just shoot out of the ground was awesome....and then the stage 2 rockets kicked in and there was a hell of a tail. Glad I came home to see it, can now cross off watching a rocket launch to the moon (although I'd certainly like to be closer in the future)

 

[RubbinsRacin]

come visit then. shits about to get real down hear in ole mex soon. #frontrowseat #musk

 

[JDawg]

BUMP FOR TONIGHT

Minotaur goes off tonight from Wallops between 7:30 and 9:30 PM. Conditions look fantastic so a good view should be had.

http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/MissionUpdates/MinotaurI_ORS-3/

 

[JDawg]

 

[JDawg]

My goal for tonight is to try and figure out how to pull off an awesome time lapse photo. This one is from LADEE back in September (launch in the OP)

 

[94Deac]

People in the south will have to continue to believe space missions are staged; no one has ever been able to fly off this flat Earth.

 

[JDawg]

scheduled for 8:15 assuming nothing goes wrong

 

[WilmingtonDeac]

Pretty cool. Had sight of it for around 3 minutes here just south of Wilmington.

 

[BDL]

too cloudy here in winston town

 

[2&2 Slider To Leyritz]

Got my kid all bundled up and we sat outside to watch it in Charlotte. We didn't see shit.

 

[bym051d]

People in the south will have to continue to believe space missions are staged; no one has ever been able to fly off this flat Earth.

In the 5,000 years of this planet's life, nothing has been able to leave...

Until the rapture.