Dawn spacecraft

After being delayed with fueling problems on the weekend, the launch of NASA's Dawn spacecraft took to the skies.

It was enveloped in fire, the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Dawn spacecraft flys from the launch pad and begins its 1.7-billion-mile flight though the solar system to study Asteroids.

Dawn, the 9th mission of NASA's Discovery Program will be the first spacecraft to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. the journey will take Dawn to the Ceres & Vesta asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It NASA's first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ION propulsion engines. I'm looking forward to the info reterived by this mission!