Craft launched from Virginia now orbiting moon
By Martin Weil, Washington Post
"NASA has largely been shut down, but not the spacecraft launched last month from Virginia. It is now flying around the moon.
“Yes,” a spokesman for Orbital Sciences said Monday by e-mail. “It is in lunar orbit.”
The spacecraft, known as LADEE, was carried into space from the NASA facility at Wallops Island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore by a launch vehicle designed, built and operated by Orbital for the Air Force.
The Sept. 6 launch was the first to send a spacecraft to the moon from Virginia. The fiery trail of the rocket that propelled LADEE upward was visible for hundreds of miles along the Eastern Seaboard."
Whole article at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/craft-launched-from-virginia-now-orbiting-moon/2013/10/14/20b65c60-3534-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html
