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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — On Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers separate the Dawn spacecraft from the Delta II second stage. Dawn is being returned to the Astrotech payload processing facility to await a new launch date. The launch opportunity extends from Sept. 7 to Oct. 15. Dawn is the ninth mission in NASA's Discovery Program. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission.
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