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| Deep Impact Launch January 12, 2005 |
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| The Deep Impact spacecraft lifted off on-time aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 1:47:08.574 p.m. EST. Deep Impact successfully completed its mission to investigate Comet Tempel 1.
Tim Puckett earned an inviation to the launch through his participation in the Small Telescope Science Program. You can read about Tim and other amateurs who took part in the project in the NASA article "Small Scopes, Big Impact."
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| Photos from the launch, Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center
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| Click the thumbnail images for more photos.
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| Deep Impact Launch |
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| Kennedy Space Center |
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| Cape Canaveral |
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| Saturn V Pavilion |
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