Detail View: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? On Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Dawn spacecraft is moved through the mobile service tower to the opening that will allow it to be lowered to the ground. Dawn is being returned to the Astrotech payload processing facility to await a new launch date. The launch opportunity extends from Sept. 7 to Oct. 15. Dawn is the ninth mission in NASA's Discovery Program. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission. Vesta and Ceres lie in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is also NASA?s first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ion propulsion engines. NASA/George Shelton
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? On Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Dawn spacecraft is moved through the mobile service tower to the opening that will allow it to be lowered to the ground. Dawn is being returned to the Astrotech payload processing facility to await a new launch date. The launch opportunity extends from Sept. 7 to Oct. 15. Dawn is the ninth mission in NASA's Discovery Program. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission. Vesta and Ceres lie in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is also NASA?s first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ion propulsion engines. NASA/George Shelton
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Release Date:
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07/22/2007
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Photo Credit:
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NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Release:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
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Dawn
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Florida
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07-22-2007
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2007
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Photo Number:
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KSC-07PD-2056
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SPD-KSCMA-KSC-07PD-2056
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original url:
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=33022
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