Politics & Government
Launch of Moon Probes Bumped Another Day
The new launch date for the rocket carrying lunar orbiters is scheduled for Saturday.
NASA has delayed the launch of a Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory for one more day.
First scheduled to launch Thursday then tentatively bumped to today, has announced the engineers need another day to review propulsion system data from the rocket after it was drained of fuel, following the scuttled launch.
The lunar orbiters attached to the rocket will study how the moon was formed, mapping its gravity field.
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The launch now is planned for Saturday, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. There are two instantaneous launch opportunities at 5:29:45 a.m. and 6:08:52 a.m. PDT.
Saturday's forecast shows a 60 percent chance of favorable weather conditions.
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More information about GRAIL is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/grail and http://grail.nasa.gov .
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