[meteorite-list] NASA Postpones Phoenix Launch

[Ron Baalke]

July 31, 2007

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-3749
katherine.trinidad at nasa.gov 

George Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.diller at nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: 07-097

NASA POSTPONES PHOENIX LAUNCH

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Friday's scheduled launch of NASA's Phoenix 
Mars Lander aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has been 
postponed 24 hours. The two available launch times on Saturday, Aug. 
4, are 5:26:34 a.m. and 6:02:59 a.m. EDT.

Due to a forecast for severe weather around the Kennedy Space Center 
launch pad in Florida on Tuesday afternoon, fueling of the second 
stage will not be completed. Although fueling is expected to be 
finished Wednesday morning, there is insufficient contingency time in 
the schedule to move forward with the launch on Friday.

The prelaunch news conference is now scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 2, 
at 2 p.m. at the NASA press site at Kennedy Space Center. All other 
planned events for the news media will occur 24 hours after their 
originally scheduled times. NASA Television and Web coverage will 
begin at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday. For more information about the 
Phoenix mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix

For more information about NASA TV, streaming video, and downlink and 
schedule information, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

	
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