
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida stand by as the solid rocket booster in front of them is prepared to be raised to vertical. The booster rocket will be mated, along with others, to the Atlas V already in the Vertical Integration Facility, at right. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled to launch in January 2006 on a journey to Pluto and its moon, Charon.
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November 7, 2005
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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