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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft is lifted from its transporter. The third stage, a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor, is being moved to a work stand, in the foreground at right. The launch vehicle for New Horizons is the Atlas V rocket, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd2554. NASA/KSC, 2005-12-01. Public domain. ID: KSC-05pd2554.
