Goin' straight to Hades
Pluto, that is. Eventually.
"NASA scrubbed its launch of an unmanned spacecraft to Pluto for the second day Wednesday, but this time weather in Maryland was to blame.
"A storm in Laurel, Md., knocked out power at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing operations of the New Horizons spacecraft.
"The launch of the New Horizons probe had been called off Tuesday afternoon when winds at the launch pad in Cape Canaveral exceeded the space agency's 38-mph flight restriction."
"NASA [was] prepared to launch an unmanned, piano-sized probe that will fly by Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet, and also study a mysterious zone of icy objects (the Kuiper Belt) that surrounds the frosty planet at the outer edges of the planetary system.
"The scheduled launch of the New Horizons spacecraft yesterday afternoon, and a successful nine-year journey to Pluto, would complete an exploration of the planets started by NASA in the early 1960s with unmanned missions to observe Mars, Mercury and Venus.
"Pluto is the only planet discovered by a U.S. citizen, though some astronomers dispute Pluto's right to be called a planet. It is an oddball icy dwarf unlike the rocky planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, and the gaseous planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune."
"NASA scrubbed its launch of an unmanned spacecraft to Pluto for the second day Wednesday, but this time weather in Maryland was to blame.
"A storm in Laurel, Md., knocked out power at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing operations of the New Horizons spacecraft.
"The launch of the New Horizons probe had been called off Tuesday afternoon when winds at the launch pad in Cape Canaveral exceeded the space agency's 38-mph flight restriction."
"NASA [was] prepared to launch an unmanned, piano-sized probe that will fly by Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet, and also study a mysterious zone of icy objects (the Kuiper Belt) that surrounds the frosty planet at the outer edges of the planetary system.
"The scheduled launch of the New Horizons spacecraft yesterday afternoon, and a successful nine-year journey to Pluto, would complete an exploration of the planets started by NASA in the early 1960s with unmanned missions to observe Mars, Mercury and Venus.
"Pluto is the only planet discovered by a U.S. citizen, though some astronomers dispute Pluto's right to be called a planet. It is an oddball icy dwarf unlike the rocky planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, and the gaseous planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune."
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