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KSC-07pd1605

NASA / KSC · 2007-06-21 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — At Astrotech, an overhead crane lifts the Dawn spacecraft from its stand to move and mate it to the upper stage booster for launch. Dawn is scheduled to launch July 7 from Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch by investigating in detail the largest protoplanets that have remained intact since their formations: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.

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Credit lineKSC-07pd1605. NASA/KSC, 2007-06-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pd1605.
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