(AP)—NASA has launched a suborbital rocket from its Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
The space agency says the Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket was launched for the Department of Defense on Monday morning.
The launch originally was scheduled for Friday morning but NASA postponed it because of weather concerns.
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