[meteorite-list] NASA GRAIL Moon Mission Launch Rescheduled to September 9

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-280  

NASA GRAIL Moon Mission Launch Rescheduled
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
September 08, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The launch of a Delta II vehicle carrying NASA's
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was scrubbed today,
Thursday, Sept. 8, due to weather. Conditions associated with upper
level winds were in violation of the launch criteria.

The Delta II and GRAIL are safe and secure at this time. The launch is
rescheduled for Friday, Sept. 9, from Space Launch Complex-17B at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. There are two instantaneous launch
opportunities at 5:33:25 a.m. PDT (8:33:25 a.m. EDT) and 6:12:31 a.m.
PDT (9:12:31 a.m. EDT). The forecast for tomorrow (Sept. 9) shows a 40
percent chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the GRAIL
mission. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is home
to the mission's principal investigator, Maria Zuber. The GRAIL mission
is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built
the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility
of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in
Florida. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena.

More information about GRAIL is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/grail and
http://grail.nasa.gov .

DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle at jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
Dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

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

2011-280