| LADEE heads to moon aboard Minotaur V 9/6/13 ~ 11:27pm Homepage Launch Photos Purchase photos! LADEE TO THE MOON! As seen from the Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center, about 200 miles north of the launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, the first Orbital Sciences Minotaur V rocket sends NASA's LADEE spacecraft on its way to the moon. The Empire State Building is lit up green and blue in honor of the US Open of tennis, being played in Flushing, Queens this week. <--- Minotaur 1 TacSat-2 Minotaur 4 ORS-5 ---> |