Rocket launch from Va. spaceport rescheduled

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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) — NASA has rescheduled the Virginia launch of a rocket carrying instruments that will study how the first galaxy was formed.

The Black Brant XII suborbital rocket was scheduled to launch Tuesday night from the Wallops Island Flight Facility. But NASA says there wasn’t sufficient time before the launch to cool the instruments to the required temperature.

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