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Space & Planetary Science

Deep Impact Departs Earth

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 12, 2005

NASA Deep Impact Asteroid Probe Launched

“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 has successfully begun its mission to investigate comet Tempel 1.”

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