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NASA Missions to the Solar System 2006
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NEW DESIGNS Multipurpose Crew Exploration Vehicle
CEV and New Launch Vehicles
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Heavy Lift Vehicle for Cargo Crew Launch
Vehicle for CEV Using Shuttle Derived
Technology
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Manned CEV Approaches to Dock With ISS
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Unmanned Heavy Lift Cargo Vehicle Arrives at ISS
With Lunar Lander
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CEV Docks with Lander and TLI Booster and
Departs Earth Orbit for the Moon
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CEV and Lander Arrive in Lunar Orbit CEV 2X
Apollo with 4 Lunar Crew
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America Returns to the Moon
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STARDUST Return to Earth January 15, 2006
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Close Encounter with Comet Wild 2 January
2004 Approach Velocity 13,000 MPH
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The Face of Comet WILD 2
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AEROGEL Capture Of Stardust and Cometary Ejecta
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Stardust on Reentry 23,300 Miles Per Hour
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Stardust on Utah Desert After Touchdown
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Precious Cargo In Processing
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New Horizons to Pluto and Kuiper Belt
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New Horizons on Launch Pad Atlas V
Booster Centaur Second Stage Star 48B Third
Stage Launch Window Opened January 17,
2006 1324 EST 1st Scrub WINDS 2nd Scrub
Launch Control Power Failure J. Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab
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New Horizons Launch Windows Jupiter Assist Jan
17 February 2nd 2006 - Arrival at Pluto
2015 Direct to Pluto February 3rd February
14th Arrival at Pluto 2018 Additional launch
windows are open in February March 2007
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New Horizons Velocity 28,800 MPH Ave. Transit
Lunar Orbit 8 Hours Reaches Jupiter in 13
months (compare to Voyagers 19 months) Arrives
at Pluto in July 2015 Kuiper Mission 2016-2020
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Power Source Single RTG 200 watts
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Pluto Charon from Hubble
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The Suns Family Grows (Not Shown 2004DW) Pluto
39.5 AU Quaoar 43.6 AU 2004DW 45 AU Sedna
89 AU
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Mercury Messenger Spacecraft
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MARS 2006
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Mars Rover Design Life 90 days Actual
Operational Life 740 days
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Martian Dust Devils
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Getting Stuck On Mars - Rover Opportunity
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Launched August
2005 Will Arrive March 2006
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MARS Phoenix Mission to North Pole August 2007
Launch
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Mars Science Laboratory - Launch Fall
2009 Nuclear Reactor Powered 3-12 Mile Range /
One Mars Year research Plan
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Mars Deep Core Drilling Platform
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Possible Future Mars Missions Balloon and Aircraft
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Cassini at Saturn 2006
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The Dragon Storm
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The Cassini Missions Most Downloaded
Picture - The Surface of Titan from Huygens
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Dione and Tethys
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Iapetus
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Mimas
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Mimas and Pandora
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Pandora
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Phoebe
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The Shepherd Moons
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Tethys and Enceladus
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Titan
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