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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft waits in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center for mating with the third stage, or upper booster, a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor. The launch vehicle for New Horizons is the Atlas V rocket, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan. 11, and fly through the Pluto system as early as summer 2015.
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December 11, 2005
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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