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Ref : S07446
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Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets (2314 images)
Title : On Launch Complex 17A
Caption :
(06/12/2001) -- On Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, technicians work on the bottom of the first stage of a Delta II rocket before its lift up the gantry. The rocket will propel the Genesis spacecraft on a journey to capture samples of the ions and elements in the solar wind and return them to Earth for scientists to use to determine the exact composition of the Sun and the solar system’s origin. NASA's Genesis project in managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Lockheed Martin Astronautics built the Genesis spacecraft for NASA in Denver, Colo. The launch is scheduled for July 30 at 12:36 p.m. EDT
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