MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection
Record
Description:
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? At the Astrotech payload processing facility, workers roll the uncanned Dawn spacecraft into an inner room. Dawn was returned from Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to Astrotech 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/Charisse Nahser
Release Date:
07/22/2007
Photo Credit:
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Release:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
facet_what:
Dawn
facet_where:
Florida
facet_when:
07-22-2007
facet_when_year:
2007
Photo Number:
KSC-07PD-2070
UID:
SPD-KSCMA-KSC-07PD-2070
original url:
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? At the Astrotech payload processing facility, workers roll th...

     
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. ? At the Astrotech payload processing facility, workers roll the uncanned Dawn spacecraft into an inner room. Dawn was returned from Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to Astrotech 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/Charisse Nahser