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nitpicker

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Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:32 AM Nov 2018

NASA's rocket launch Thursday will light up sky on East Coast. Here's how to see it.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article221547090.html

NASA’s rocket launch Thursday will light up sky on East Coast. Here’s how to see it.

By Abbie Bennett

November 12, 2018 03:43 PM
SA is launching a rocket this week that promises to light up the sky on the East Coast. But you’ll have to get up early to see it.

The Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket is scheduled to launch at 4:49 a.m. Eastern on Thursday from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, headed to resupply the International Space Station. Weather permitting, the launch should be visible in the Carolinas, according to NASA, and is expected to “light up the sky,” according to the Wallops Flight Facility. “The launch is expected to be visible to much of the East Coast if the skies are clear.”

The Wallops Mission Status Center website will have a live countdown and live audio and video from the launch. When accessed using a smartphone browser, the Status Center also will include information on when you could see the rocket in flight and how to use your smartphone to find the viewing direction “to see the rocket streak across the early morning sky,” according to NASA.

Live coverage of the mission is set to start at 10:30 p.m. Nov. 14 on the Wallops video and audio Ustream sites.

Launch coverage on NASA TV will begin at 4:15 a.m.

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