Liftoff! NASA Moon Probe Launches from Va. to Hunt 40-Year Lunar Mystery
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 23:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA began a new trek to the moon Friday night (Sept. 6) with a dazzling launch from Virginia that sent a spacecraft soaring toward Earth's nearest neighbor to probe the thin lunar atmosphere and, just maybe, solve a 40-year space mystery.