so if you live on the east coast and you were looking up at the sky perhaps last night, you may have seen a nasa rocket on its way to the moon. the unmanned rocket was launched from virginia at 11:27 p.m. eastern time. it's expected to reach the moon on october 6th to study the lunar atmosphere and environment. so launching a spacecraft relies a lot on weather. alexandra steele is live for us in the weather center. >> what's ground breaking about this is that in the past the way we've gotten images from space is through radio waves. but when you send radio waves, they could be sent through rain or shine. there's a limited amount of info kind of you can send at a time. but what's groundbreaking about now and what the nasa space is doing is now the communications will be sent through laser. so think of like a laser beam when you point it. it's so small and narrow, right? so that's what's happening. but the problem is that narrow