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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Boeing Delta II rocket with NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft attached is becoming visible as the launch tower is prepared for rollback. The launch is scheduled for 2:47 a.m. EDT July 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Designed and built by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., the 2,138-pound (970-kilogram) spacecraft will be placed into an elliptical Earth orbit until Aug.
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