NASA postpones Dawn

[Rick]

The launch of NASA's Dawn mission has been delayed by 24 hours because the weather gods are not playing ball.

The spacecraft is all bundled up on the launch pad and ready to go, NASA says. All it needs is a window of decent clear skies so NASA's techs can get out to the launch pad and put some fuel in the rocket's second stage.

The mission is now set to blast off on 27 September, in a short launch window between 7:20am and 7:49am, Eastern time.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/nasa_postpones_dawn/

[Rick]

Dawn, NASA's mission to the asteroid belt, has at last launched successfully. At the time of writing, NASA mission managers were still waiting for the Delta II's second and third stages to fire, but so far it is all looking good.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/dawn_lifts_off_at_last/