NASA’s ‘time machine’ lifts off – says Los Angeles Times
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft begins an eight-year journey that scientists hope can help them understand the formation of the solar system.The Dawn spacecraft launched Thursday on a 3.2-billion-mile journey to the asteroid belt, where scientists hope to find clues to the formation of the solar system.The spacecraft, atop a Delta 2 rocket, took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 4:34 a.m. PDT. “We have our time machine up and flying,” said UCLA space physics professor Christopher T.Russell, the lead scientist on the project.
