Reuters, Cape Canaveral :
A US spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars blasted off on Friday for an unmanned trial run
around Earth. A Delta 4 Heavy rocket, currently the biggest booster in the US fleet, lifted off at 7:05 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co that builds and flies the rocket, delayed launch by one day to resolve a problem with sluggish values in the rocket’s first-stage propellant system.
Riding atop a fountain of fire, the 24-story-tall rocket soared out over the Atlantic Ocean, punching through partly cloudy skies as it headed into orbit.
A US spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars blasted off on Friday for an unmanned trial run
around Earth. A Delta 4 Heavy rocket, currently the biggest booster in the US fleet, lifted off at 7:05 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co that builds and flies the rocket, delayed launch by one day to resolve a problem with sluggish values in the rocket’s first-stage propellant system.
Riding atop a fountain of fire, the 24-story-tall rocket soared out over the Atlantic Ocean, punching through partly cloudy skies as it headed into orbit.
