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Moments after the launch window opened at 5:30 am Thursday morning, the Terrier-improved Orion sounding rocket blasted off from the NASA facility. It is carrying several experiments from mostly college students. It is part of a program called RockSat-C.

An Antares rocket launched to the International Ppace Station Tuesday night, marking the final flight for the vehicle.

The spacecraft launched at 8:31 pm from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 82-hundred pounds of NASA science investigation cargo.