Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch on Dec. 30, 2004. The spacecraft was shipped from Ball Aerospace & Technologies in Boulder, Colo., to the Astrotech Space Operations facility located near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"Deep Impact has begun its journey to comet Tempel 1," said Rick Grammier, Deep Impact project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "First to Florida, then to space, and then to the comet itself. It will be quite a journey and one which we can all witness together." …
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