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KSC-99pc0102
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers check the mating of the spacecraft Stardust (above) with the third stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket (below). Targeted for launch Feb. 6 from Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, aboard the Delta II rocket, the spacecraft is destined for a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. Using a silicon-based substance called aerogel, Stardust will capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of the comet.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pc0102. NASA/KSC, 1999-01-26. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pc0102.
