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KSC-05pd-0126
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — On Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., shadows paint the Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft as the mobile service tower at left is rolled back before launch.Scheduled for liftoff at 1:47 p.m. EST today, Deep Impact will head for space and a rendezvous with Comet Tempel 1 when the comet is 83 million miles from Earth.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0126. NASA/KSC, 2005-01-12. Public domain. ID: 05pd0126.
