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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Randy Scott, with Lockheed Martin Astronautics, checks insulation...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers get ready to install the Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and -X...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers remove the Stardust solar panels for testing. The spacecraft...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers inspect the aerogel grid from the Stardust Sample Return...
A solid rocket booster is lifted off a transport vehicle for its transfer to the mobile launch tower at Pad 17A,...
At Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, a Boeing Delta II rocket waits with its four solid rocket boosters for final...
The first stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket is guided to its vertical position on the tower at Launch Complex 17,...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers oversee the arrival of the crated Stardust spacecraft. Built by...
A solid rocket booster is lifted up the mobile launch tower at Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. It will be mated...
A fourth and final Solid Rocket Booster arrives at Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station to be mated with a Boeing...
After arrival at the Shuttle Landing Facility in the early morning hours, the crated Stardust spacecraft waits to be...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the aerogel grid is fully deployed from the Stardust Sample Return...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Randy Scott, with Lockheed Martin Astronautics, looks over the Stardust...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers work at removing the Stardust solar panels for testing. The...
A fourth and final Solid Rocket Booster, to be mated with a Boeing Delta II rocket, starts its lift up the tower at...
A Boeing Delta II rocket sits on Launch Pad 17A (left), Cape Canaveral Air Station, before mating with its final...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers prepare to open the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC)...
This STS-80 onboard photograph shows the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers begin checking the Stardust spacecraft after removing its...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, a worker looks over the re-entry capsule on top of the Stardust...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers begin removing the protective plastic covering of the Stardust...
The Blue Ring Nebula is thought to be the product of two stars merging into one. The collision of the bodies ejected...
The Stardust spacecraft sits in the Payload Hazardous Service Facility waiting to undergo installation and testing...
In the Payload Hazardous Service Facility, workers check the placement of the Stardust spacecraft's workstand in the...