NASA Finally Able To Send ‘Dawn’ Probe Into Space
NASA is finding no problems with the Dawn spacecraft after they sent it rocketing into space. Scientists have been waiting along time for the probe to begin its eight-year journey to two large asteroids. For Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell, the liftoff capped a 15-year effort to plunder the secrets of planetary formation from asteroids Vesta and Ceres. Russell and his mission team watched Dawn rise over its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida from the spacecraft’s Launch Control Center.