Radar Trouble Stalls Moon-Probe Launch
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
NASA’s return to the moon after being away 25 years will have to wait at least another day. An unmanned Athena rocket was supposed to blast off with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft from Cape Canaveral by the light of a first moon. But last-minute trouble with the Air Force radar needed to track the rocket forced NASA to delay the launch until tonight.
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