When a Delta II rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral (video) shortly
after sunrise last September 27 and shoved Dawn onto its 3.2 - billion - mile journey, he finally let out a deep sigh of relief; for a long time it had not been clear that NASA could muster the money and the technology to make the mission happen.
Just
after sunrise on a misty spring morning
last year, my fellow acoustician at the University of Salford, Bruno Fazenda, and Rupert Till of the University of Huddersfield, UK, could be found wandering around Stonehenge popping balloons.