KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 watch as the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft is raised to vertical for transfer to a spin table. CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet -- the nucleus. Flying as close as 60 miles (100 kilometers) to at least two comets, the spacecraft will take the sharpest pictures yet of a nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system. Launch of CONTOUR aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for July 1 from Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station KSC-02pd0824
Summary
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 watch as the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft is raised to vertical for transfer to a spin table. CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet -- the nucleus. Flying as close as 60 miles (100 kilometers) to at least two comets, the spacecraft will take the sharpest pictures yet of a nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system. Launch of CONTOUR aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for July 1 from Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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kennedy space center
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spacecraft
encapsulation
encapsulation facility
comet
nucleus
comet nucleus tour
contour
transfer
spin
table
spin table
heart
kilometers
two comets
pictures
gas
dust
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system
delta
rocket
delta ii rocket
launch pad
station
cape canaveral air force station ksc
air force
cape canaveral
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nasa
Date
30/05/2002
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NASA
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