The rocket was unmanned.

Tonight at 6:22 p.m.

The U.S. Air Force will launch the Minotaur I Rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island facility in Virginia tomorrow evening at 7:30 p.m.

“LADEE is doing well right now, but we are not certain of the frog’s fate.”

Tonight’s LADEE lunar orbital launch will be visible in D.C. Here’s where you can see it best.

After a few mechanical and meteorological delays, the launch of the Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Va. is back on.

Stargazers hoping for an early evening rocket show tonight will have to wait a bit longer, it seems.

Look toward the southeast this evening, and you might just be able to see the fiery trail of a rocket bound for outer space.

Earlier today, NASA’s facility in Wallops Island, Va. launched a rocket carrying an experimental heat shield that, if functional, could play a role in the space agency’s future missions to Mars and elsewhere in the solar system.

Over the past week, a nearly-confirmed rumor has circulated that while NASA may actually be getting a slight financial boost overall in the President’s 2011 budget plan — which he’ll announce Monday — Obama will also urge Congress to give the Constellation program the axe, big time, leaving the U.S. space program with no plan for human spaceflight in the foreseeable future. (We’ll be relying on the Russians to send our astronauts to the…