PHILADELPHIA - Did you know that NASA launches rockets in different parts of the county?A few hours south of the Delaware Valley, NASAs sends up rockets with scientific experiments from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Wallops Island is about an hour south of Ocean City, Maryland and next to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, an area famous for its wild ponies.A rocket was scheduled to launch around sunrise Thursday morning, but weather delayed the launch until Friday.Sometimes, we can see the exhaust clouds from these rocket launches in our region, but that won't be the case with Friday morning's launch for most of us.
The rocket is too tiny for us to see the exhaust clouds in Pa., N.J., or even most of Del. You'll have to be in southern Sussex County, in Delaware, to see some exhaust clouds.This rocket will send information for various student projects, and these student projects will measure data as the rocket climbs to the edge of space.
The rocket will end up getting about 75 miles off the ground before it falls back down to earth and into the Atlantic Ocean.