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To the moon, via Virginia: NASA's LADEE lifts off to study lunar atmosphere [i]NASA's first moon-bound probe to launch from Virginia lifted off late Friday evening (Sept. 6) on the maiden flight of a new five-stage rocket. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE (pronounced "laddie") soared space-ward at 11:27 p.m. EDT (0327 GMT Sept. 7) riding atop Orbital Sciences Corp.'s new Minotaur V booster, a converted Peacekeeper missile, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0B at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The $280 million LADEE mission will use a trio of science instruments to study the moon's exosphere, the very thin layer of atmosphere just above the lunar surface, and the effects that environment may have on moon dust.[/i]
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