For the second consecutive day, NASA officials postponed the planned liftoff of its New Horizons space mission to Pluto.
The piano-size probe is set to embark on a nine-year, three-billion-mile (five-billion-kilometer) journey to the ninth planet.
Perched atop an Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft was originally scheduled to depart Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday. But windy conditions scrubbed the launch.
Today NASA officials said liftoff would be delayed once again due to a severe storm that knocked out power at the mission's flight operations center in Laurel, Maryland.
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