'New Horizons' Pluto Mission Finally Lifts Off
The Atlas 5 rocket that will send the New Horizons spacecraft on a
mission to the planet Pluto sits on the launch pad at Cape
Canaveral, Fla., Thursday.
Image source: MSNBC / NASA
mission to the planet Pluto sits on the launch pad at Cape
Canaveral, Fla., Thursday.
Image source: MSNBC / NASA
Via MSNBC.
After two days of weather-caused delays, NASA launched a $700 million unmanned mission to Pluto.
The launch of the New Horizons probe had been scrubbed twice this week by high winds, first at the launch pad on Tuesday and then when a storm in Maryland knocked out power Wednesday to the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory that will control the mission.
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