Boston and area residents might be able to catch a glimpse of a NASA space probe rocket as it is launched to the moon, Friday night.

The small Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environmental Explorer (LADEE) will launch into orbit tonight from NASA’s Wallop Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia at 11:27 p.m. To see if you have a chance at a front row seat, click here. For those unable to witness the rocket in flight first hand, NASA TV has provided a webcast of the LADEE launch that will begin at 9:30 p.m. EST.

The LADEE, about the size of a car, is a NASA spacecraft on a robotic mission to orbit the moon and gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere. The spacecraft will also examine moon dust conditions near the surface.

The LADDE will be attached to a Minotaur V rocket, an eight story, five-stage rocket. Once launched, it will take roughly two and a half months for the LADEE to reach the moon. After it does, LADEE will spend 100 days orbiting while conducting science experiments 30 miles above our moon’s surface.

Following completion of the $280 million mission, the LADEE will impact the moon surface.

Don’t blink, tonight; you might miss your chance. Space.com reports that the first three minutes and 28 seconds of the rocket’s launch will give onlookers the best chance at catching a glimpse. During this time, the first three stages of the rocket will ignite and burn out over the Mid-Atlantic.