NASA ISS Rocket Launch Will ‘Light Up the Sky’ Across the East Coast on Thursday

If you’re up (very) early on Thursday and you live on the East Coast, you may catch a glimpse of an impressive sight soaring through the sky. On November 15, at 4:49 a.m. EST, NASA will launch an Antares rocket from its Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) on Wallops Island, along Virginia's eastern shore. Designed by aerospace and defense manufacturer Northup Grumman, the rocket will carry one of the company’s Cygnus spacecraft, which was designed to transport supplies to the International Space Station following the retirement of the Space Shuttle. More

(Source: Newsweek - Nov 14)