NASA's "Dawn" Spacecraft to Move Along

I really do like NASA. 
They impress me with the things they have been able to accomplish with diminishing budgets.  From Hubble to the Mars rovers (including the latest one, "Curiosity") and numerous probes that are still out there exploring.  Of course their budget gets cut often because of ignorance of how much of the budget they get (or at least the impact of the cuts to NASA to the overall budget) as well as a generally poor understanding of the scientific contributions of NASA.  However, I will save that rant for another day.
Today I just wanted to mention NASA's "Dawn" spacecraft which traveled around 5 billion miles and has been examining an asteroid, but will now move along to a dwarf planet called "Ceres".

                                         (picture from article below)

I also wanted to slip from the Science part of this story to the Science Fiction part:  You will note that Dawn is powered by twin ion engines....  any Star Wars nerds??  That is what powered the TIE Fighters in the triology (TIE: Twin Ion Engine). 

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