Thrifty Powerplant Will Power Probe To Asteroid Rendezvous
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is flying high... now that it has finally
made it into space. NASA tells ANN the spacecraft successfully
completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the
weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn's eight-year,
three-billion-mile journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet
Ceres.
United Launch Alliance was awarded launch services contracts
last week for two future NASA space exploration missions, Landsat
and Juno, scheduled to launch in 2011 aboard Atlas V rockets.
Landsat will launch from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air
Force Base, CA, and Juno from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, FL.
Apollo 1 Astronaut Roger Chaffee's Widow Accepted Honor
NASA recently honored the late astronaut Naval Lt. Cmdr. Roger
B. Chaffee with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration
Award for his involvement in the US space program.
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