NASA Postpones Launch Due to Bad Weather
Posted on: Tuesday, 3 August 2004, 06:00 CDT
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.
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