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After a 24-hour postponement, the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft waits on Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, for its scheduled launch at 4:04 p.m. EST. Umbilical lines (at top) still attached to the fixed utility tower (at right) feed electricity, air conditioning and coolants for the Stardust spacecraft inside the fairing (enclosing the upper stage) before launch. Stardust is destined for a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. Using a silicon-based substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of the comet. The spacecraft also will bring back samples of interstellar dust. These materials consist of ancient pre-solar interstellar grains and other remnants left over from the formation of the solar system. Scientists expect their analysis to provide important insights into the evolution of the sun and planets and possibly into the origin of life itself. The collected samples will return to Earth in a sample return capsule to be jettisoned as Stardust swings by Earth in January 2006 KSC-99pc0156

Orbital ATK CRS-7 Rollout. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island Polaris Missile Lab & U.S. Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Training Center, Between Lexington Boulvevard and the sea plane ramps on the southwest side of Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc - A white rocket sitting on top of a grass covered field

The Soyuz TMA-20 Spacecraft Arrives at the Launch Pad

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SGT. Stephen M. Kravitsky inspects an LGM-30G Minuteman III missile inside a silo about 60 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. Kravitsky, a missile systems analyst with the 321st Organizational Missile Maintenance Squadron, has been named as one of the Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 1989

Expedition 26 Soyuz Rollout, Russian space program

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Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 27 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

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The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is lifted into position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. The Soyuz, which has been dubbed “Gagarin”, is launching one week shy of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin from the same launch pad in Baikonur on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. The first stage of the Soyuz booster is emblazoned with the name “Gagarin” and the likeness of the first person to fly in space. Photo Credit (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

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Expedition 35 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

OSIRIS-REx Rollout for Launch. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Expedition 27 Prelaunch. NASA public domain image colelction.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery is attached to Launch Pad 39A as the sun rises over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It took the spacecraft about six hours to make the journey, known as "rollout," from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad. Rollout sets the stage for Discovery's STS-133 crew to practice countdown and launch procedures during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test in mid-October. Targeted to liftoff Nov. 1, Discovery will take the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2 (R2) to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2010-4736

Expedition 27 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

NASA Social. NASA public domain image colelction.

Apollo 17 Rolls to the Launch Pad

Expedition 19 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 23 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Installation of Soyuz Spacecraft at Baikonur

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Atop the mobile launcher platform, Space Shuttle Atlantis arrives on Launch Pad 39B after rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Seen on either side of the orbiter’s tail are the tail service masts. They support the fluid, gas and electrical requirements of the orbiter’s liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen aft umbilicals. The Shuttle is targeted for launch no earlier than July 12 on mission STS-104, the 10th flight to the International Space Station. The payload on the 11-day mission is the Joint Airlock Module, which will allow astronauts and cosmonauts in residence on the Station to perform future spacewalks without the presence of a Space Shuttle. The module, which comprises a crew lock and an equipment lock, will be connected to the starboard (right) side of Node 1 Unity. Atlantis will also carry oxygen and nitrogen storage tanks, vital to operation of the Joint Airlock, on a Spacelab Logistics Double Pallet in the payload bay. The tanks, to be installed on the perimeter of the Joint Module during the mission’s spacewalks, will support future spacewalk operations and experiments plus augment the resupply system for the Station’s Service Module KSC-01pp1184

Expedition 51 Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

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