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See NASA's LADEE Moon Probe Launch from Virginia (Visibility Maps)

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LADEE and the Moon Artist's Concept

Credit: NASA Ames/Dana Berry
On Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, NASA will launch the LADEE moon dust mission from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The launch will occur at 11:27 p.m. ET (0327 Sept. 7 GMT) and may be visible across a wide reagion of the U.S. East Coast. See sky maps for potential viewing locations and launch trajectories in the slides that follow.

This image above shows an artist's depiction of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory in space with the moon in the distance. [Read The Full Skywatching Guide Here]