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NASA Postpones Launch Due to Bad Weather

August 3, 2004
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NASA postpones launch due to bad weather

From Journal Sentinel wire reports

Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Bad weather forced mission managers to postpone launching NASA’s Messenger spacecraft on a Boeing Delta 2 rocket early Monday.

Managers stopped the launch because of clouds near the pad at a critical point in the countdown. The minuscule 12-second launch window left no time to try again.

NASA hopes to try again early today.

Messenger is set to begin a 4.9 billion-mile journey to orbit the planet Mercury and collect data on the planet’s geology and atmosphere.