Hey Ladee

Last Friday was the perfect night to witness a moon mission. Lucky for me, NASA thought so too, and thus hurled a golf cart-sized probe aboard an Air Force Minotaur V rocket out of Earth's atmosphere en route to our friendly neighborhood celestial body. More specifically, the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) probe was launched from NASA's Wallop's Island flight facility at 11:27 pm September 6. It will slingshot around the Earth three times before reaching an elliptical orb...