Rocket: Minotaur 5
Payload: LADEE
Launch date: September 6, 2013
Launch time: 11:27 p.m. EDT (0327 GMT on 7th)
Site: Launch Pad 0B, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Va.

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