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The Dawn spacecraft is moved out of the Astrotech's Payload Processing Facility for transfer to the Hazardous Processing Facility for fueling.
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
The Dawn spacecraft, inside its shipping container, is moved out of the Astrotech's Payload Processing Facility for transfer to the Hazardous Processing Facility for fueling. Dawn is scheduled to launch June 30 aboard a Delta II rocket from Launch Complex 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Dawn's mission is to explore two of the asteroid belt's most intriguing and dissimilar occupants: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Photo credit: NASA/Charisse Nahser
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- Title: The Dawn spacecraft is moved out of the Astrotech's Payload Processing Facility for transfer to the Hazardous Processing Facility for fueling.
- Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
- About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description
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