Reuters: NASA's Pluto flight delayed again due to power outage

Reuters: NASA's Pluto flight delayed again due to power outage
NASA canceled Wednesday's launch of the U.S. space agency's first probe to
Pluto after the mission control headquarters in Maryland lost power,
officials said.

The launch of the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft on a massive Atlas 5
rocket had been postponed from Tuesday due to high winds at the launch pad
at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

NASA officials said it was not immediately clear why mission control at
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory nearly 1,000 miles
away in Maryland lost power.

The agency hoped the problem would be resolved in time for the next launch
window between 1:08 p.m. and 3:07 p.m. on Thursday. NASA has until February
14 to launch the probe, but postponements could add up to 5 years to its
journey.