A robotic spacecraft called LADEE is set to blast off to the moon to explore its atmosphere and dust later on tonight, Sept. 6, according to the Associated Press.

Liftoff is set for around 11:27 p.m. from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. 

The rocket should be visible for most of the East Coast, weather permitting, as far north as Maine and as far south as South Carolina.

If you don't live on the East Coast however, click here to watch the liftoff. Coverage begins at approximately 9:30 p.m. on NASA TV.

LADEE, which stands for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, will become the first spacecraft to be launched into outer space from Wallops, according to the Associated Press.

NASA said the unmanned rocket is made up of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors.

Only one of NASA's approximate 40 moon missions didn't blast off from Cape Canaveral, with the most famous flights coming in the 1960s and 1970s. The only moon mission that didn't take off from Cape Canaveral was a military-NASA venture that took off from California back in 1994, according to the Associated Press.

The $280 million mission will allow scientists to examine the moon's atmosphere and rough dust.

"Sometimes, people are a little taken aback when we start talking about the lunar atmosphere because, right, we were told in school that the moon doesn't have an atmosphere," said Sarah Noble, NASA program scientist, according to the Associated Press.

"It does. It's just really, really thin."

Scientists believe the moon's atmosphere is so thin, that a spacecraft landing could "disturb it." This is why it is important for the U.S. to study it first before other countries decide to go up as well.

China plans to launch their own spacecraft to study the moon's atmosphere before 2014.

LADEE's mission will last approximately six months and will end with a "suicide plunge" into the moon, according to the Associated Press.

The spacecraft, which weighs under 1,000 lbs, is expected to arrive at the moon around Oct. 6. The original mission had astronauts going along as well, but that idea was turned down by the Obama Administration in 2010.

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