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NASA ready to launch its Moon-bound LADEE spacecraft from Wallops Island

Wallops, USA - The robotic mission is aimed to gather information about the atmosphere of our satellite

The American space agency NASA is making final preparations to launch a probe at 11:27 pm EDT (3:27 am on Saturday 7 GMT/UTC) Friday, September 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, in an attempt to answer prevailing questions about our moon. The small car-sized Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather...

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