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KSC-05pd2540

NASA / KSC · 2005-12-01 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft, is moved toward the open door of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The third stage is a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan. 11 and fly through the Pluto system as early as summer 2015.

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Credit lineKSC-05pd2540. NASA/KSC, 2005-12-01. Public domain. ID: KSC-05pd2540.
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