{"id":199628,"date":"2007-07-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/10\/dawn-mission-delayed\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T15:48:00","slug":"dawn-mission-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/10\/dawn-mission-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Mission Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2007\/jul\/HQ_07150_Dawn_postpone_Sep.html\">NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for September Launch<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">WASHINGTON &#8211; The launch of NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of our solar system, has been rescheduled to September.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision was made today to move the launch to September after careful review by NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate officials, working with Dawn mission managers, the Dawn principal investigator, and with the concurrence of the NASA Administrator.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Primary reasons for the move were a combination of highly limited launch opportunities for Dawn in July and the potential impact to launch preparations for the upcoming Phoenix Mars Lander mission, set for early August. A September launch for Dawn maintains all of the science mission goals a July launch would have provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer. NASA Mission to Asteroid Belt Rescheduled for September LaunchWASHINGTON &#8211; The launch of NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft, a mission that will explore the two largest objects in the asteroid belt in an effort to answer questions about the formation of our solar system, has been rescheduled to September.The decision was made today to move the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}