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KSC-05pd2543

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

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Inside NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers remove the protective cover from around the newly arrived third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft. 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.

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Credit lineKSC-05pd2543. NASA/KSC, 2005-12-01. Public domain. ID: KSC-05pd2543.
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