Detail View: NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2) attach the antenna to the solar panel for the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft (seen in the background). CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet -- the nucleus. The spacecraft will fly as close as 60 miles (100 kilometers) to at least two comets, Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. It will take the sharpest pictures yet of the nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system. The Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., built CONTOUR and will also be in control of the spacecraft after launch, which is scheduled for July 1, 2002, from LC 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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Description:
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2) attach the antenna to the solar panel for the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft (seen in the background). CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet -- the nucleus. The spacecraft will fly as close as 60 miles (100 kilometers) to at least two comets, Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. It will take the sharpest pictures yet of the nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system. The Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., built CONTOUR and will also be in control of the spacecraft after launch, which is scheduled for July 1, 2002, from LC 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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Release Date:
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04/29/2002
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Photo Credit:
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NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Release:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
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facet_what:
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COMETS
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facet_where:
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Florida
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facet_when:
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04-29-2002
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2002
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Photo Number:
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KSC-02PD-0598
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UID:
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SPD-KSCMA-KSC-02PD-0598
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original url:
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=9451
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