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KSC-01pp1032

NASA / KSC · 2001-05-25 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II rocket waits to be mated to four solid rocket boosters (behind the Delta). The rocket will launch the MAP instrument into a lunar-assisted trajectory to the Sun-Earth for a 27-month mission. The MAP mission will examine conditions in the early universe by measuring temperature differences in cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the radiant heat left over from the Big Bang.

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Credit lineKSC-01pp1032. NASA/KSC, 2001-05-25. Public domain. ID: KSC-01pp1032.
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