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The NASA news center, where the author learned that Swift would get another chance to blast into space
Photo: Barbara K. Kennedy, Penn State
 
The tower is rolled back at dawn prior to launch.
Photo: David Burrows, Penn State

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swift Launch Again Ready to Go

Friday, 19 November—While the launch team was voting by teleconference Friday afternoon, NASA's media-relations team was listening in, huddled around a speaker phone in the News Center and silently cheering each “go” vote. Earlier in the day, I had visited Swift out at its isolated launch pad on nearby Cape Canaveral, where it stood caged inside a scaffold tower, waiting for another chance to blast into space. Before sunrise tomorrow morning, the tower will be rolled back so Swift will be ready for its high-noon countdown!

 

 

Read all the reports from the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base about the launch of the Swift gamma-ray burst observatory, written by Barbara K. Kennedy, by clicking the links below:
         
Dispatch #1
Dispatch #2
Dispatch #3
Dispatch #4
Dispatch #5
Swift Launch Again
Ready to Go
         

 

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