Pluto New Horizons launch delayed by high winds

The planned Jan. 17 launch of the New Horizons mission to Pluto aboard an Atlas V rocket was scrubbed due to unacceptably high winds at the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA plans to try again Jan. 18 during a two-hour window opening at 1:16 p.m. Eastern time, according to Fran Slimmer...

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