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NASA Rocket Launch Rescheduled

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NASA has rescheduled the launch of this morning’s suborbital sounding rocket from its Wallops Island Flight facility for Friday between 6:30 am and 10:30 am.

The university experiments on board are part of the educational project called RockSat X.

Program is aimed at providing students with the opportunity to design build and test their experiments.

The project is a joint effort between NASA and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.

The payload carrying the experiments will return by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean around 66 miles off the coast of Virginia.  

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.