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National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899 FOR RELEASE: 01/14/2005 VIDEO NO: KSC-05-S-00024 |
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| During NASA Direct's Deep Impact webcast, Mission Integration Manager Mike Stelzer and JPL Launch Vehicle Integration Manager Tom Shaw explain how the launch vehicle and spacecraft were joined, or "integrated." Deep Impact will probe beneath the surface of Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, when the comet is 83 million miles from Earth. After releasing a 3-by-3-foot projectile called an "impactor" to crash onto the surface, Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft will collect pictures and data of the resulting crater. Scientists suspect that frozen within comets are the same chemical building blocks that lead to the formation of water -- and life -- here on Earth. | |
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