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| Keywords: New Horizons encapsulation.jpg KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FLA “ In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility clean-suit garbed workers prepare the first fairing section in the background that will encapsulate the New Horizons spacecraft at left for flight The fairing protects the spacecraft during launch and flight through the atmosphere Once out of the atmosphere the fairing is jettisoned The compact 1 060-pound New Horizons probe carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon map their surface compositions and temperatures and examine Pluto's complex atmosphere After that flybys of Kuiper Belt objects from even farther in the solar system may be undertaken in an extended mission New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary missions The spacecraft designed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel Md will fly by Pluto and Charon as early as summer 2015 http //mediaarchive ksc nasa gov/detail cfm mediaid 27603 2005-12-13 Author No copyright protection is asserted for this photograph If a recognizable person appears in this photograph use for commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA employees of a commercial product process or service or used in any other manner that might mislead Accordingly it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising and other commercial promotion layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release PHOTO CREDIT NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration PD-USGov New Horizons Payload fairing space launch vehicles Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility | ||||
