English: On Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., workers prepare a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) to be lifted up the mobile service tower and attached to the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle for launch of the Deep Impact spacecraft. A NASA Discovery mission, Deep Impact will probe beneath the surface of Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005, when the comet is 83 million miles from Earth, and reveal the secrets of its interior. After releasing a 3- by 3-foot projectile to crash onto the surface, Deep Impact’s flyby spacecraft will collect pictures and data of how the crater forms, measuring the crater’s depth and diameter, as well as the composition of the interior of the crater and any material thrown out, and determining the changes in natural outgassing produced by the impact. It will send the data back to Earth through the antennas of the Deep Space Network. Deep Impact project management is handled by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch Dec. 30, 2004.
Deutsch: Einer von neun "GEM 40" Feststoffbooster wird an eine Delta II-Rakete montiert. Diese Rakete startete am 12. Januar 2005 die Raumsonde Deep Impact zum Kometen Tempel 1.
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One of nine "GEM 40" Solid Rocket Booster ist attatched to the Delta II Rocket who has launched the "Deep Impact" Spaceprobe to the Comet Temple 1. source: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/04pd2402.jpg {{PD-USGov-NASA}}
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