NASA Launches Science Mission
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A $205-million NASA science mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., after a one-day delay caused by fishing boats that strayed into the launch danger area. A Boeing Delta 2 rocket, carrying NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE, lifted off its Florida launch pad at 10:39 a.m. EDT. On Sunday the countdown was halted by two shrimp boats anchored in where the rocket boosters would fall. The spacecraft is expected to provide warnings of potentially dangerous solar storms.
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