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  The Delta II rocket carrying the Dawn spacecraft begins to lift off from its launch pad    
 
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Dawn Launch Pierces Morning Sky

September 27, 2007--The strongest Delta II rocket lights its main engine and nine solid-fueled boosters--each having a four-foot wide nozzle--to catapult it towards the asterorid belt. Dawn will fly by Mars on its way to Vesta, and then ignite its ion engines again to go to Ceres.

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