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Ref : S07450
Theme :
Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets (2314 images)
Title : A worker in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Facility –2 faces the Genesis
Caption :
(06/13/2001) -- A worker in the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Facility –2 faces the Genesis spacecraft at right as he provides information about it to the media gathered at left. Genesis will 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 is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Lockheed Martin Astronautics built the Genesis spacecraft for NASA in Denver, Colo. Launch of Genesis aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for July 30 at 12:36 p.m. EDT
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