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NASA’s newest mission to the Moon, LADEE, launched from Wallops Island in Virginia, lighting up the sky along the US East Coast, allowing millions to see the Minotaur V rocket’s brilliance with their own eyes. Some o...

Engineers have fixed a technical glitch on NASA's newest robotic moon explorer, bringing the spacecraft back up to full health one day after a spectacular nighttime launch Friday that wowed spectators up and down the U.S...

NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA has confirmed LADEE has separated from its ride into space, powered up and is communicating with ground controllers following a successful launch at 11:27 p.m. EDT Frid...

NASA's spectacular nighttime launch of a new moon probe late Friday (Sept. 6) promised to amaze spectators up and down the U.S. East Coast. See spectacular photos of the LADEE moon mission launch.

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - A NASA moon probe thundered to space tonight, Sept. 6, blazing a spectacular trail to orbit from a beachside launch pad in Virginia that was easily visible to tens of millions of spectators along the...

NASA is taking a close look at what appears to be a minor attitude control glitch on its LADEE moon probe that cropped up shortly after the spacecraft's launch from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Sept. 6, 2013.

SPACE.com readers sent in great shots of the launch of NASA's LADEE moon mission, which soared into the sky atop a Minotaur V rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the night of Sept. 6, 2013.

The LADEE spacecraft lifted off at 11:27 p.m. EDT on Sept. 6 from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.

NASA's LADEE mission launched from Wallops Flight Facility on September 6th, 2013. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission will study the Moon's atmosphere.

See photos of NASA's LADEE moon dust mission to probe the lunar atmosphere as the probe launches toward the moon from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 6, 2013.

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Launching a probe to the moon can be a sweet experience for scientists that have spent years developing a spacecraft, and visitors to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility can get a taste of the exciting moment themselves.

Starting at 7:30pm PDT/10:30pm EDT, we will webcast a special event around the launch of NASA's next lunar spacecraft. Watch our special coverage with lunar scientists and live video from the launch site, as well as NASA...

NASA's next moon-bound probe may look small in person, but it's responsible for potentially answering some big moon mysteries.

An astronaut working onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has revealed his "lucky charm" -- a miniature toy astronaut figurine -- in a video recently sent down to Earth.