How NASA's three rockets will explore the impact of a brief, rare marvel in space

NASA plans to launch three research rockets to analyze a rare space marvel that could collect crucial information. 

The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) rockets will launch April 8 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study how the total solar eclipse impacts the Earth's upper atmosphere, NASA announced Monday. After next month's, there won't be another total solar eclipse over the contiguous U.S. until 2044, making it a potentially pivotal moment for gathering "crucial" data, the agency said.

"We are super excited to relaunch them during the total eclipse, to see if the perturbations start at the same altitude and if their magnitude a...