The launch was scheduled for 2 p.m PST/ 5 p.m EST.<p>If it blasts off (weather is an issue), the 40-meter-tall Antares rocket will be the biggest thing ever launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. It will be visible up and down the Eastern Seaboard, from Charleston, South Carolina to Portland, Maine.
For the curious:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_(rocket)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_(rocket)</a>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/17/177618507/counts-down-nears-on-antares-rocket-launch" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/17/177618507/cou...</a><p>This is a test flight. An actual flight to the ISS will come later this year.
Just announced on the stream: Abort for the day, at about T-12 minutes. "There was a premature dislocation on one of the umbilicals on the second stage."<p>"There will likely be a 48 hour re-cycle"