Stock Photo - 06/19/2002 __ On the tower at Launch Complex 17_A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers look over the Comet Nucleus Tour CONTOUR spacecraft before removing the bottom of the canister . CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet __ the nucleus. Flying as close as 60 miles 100 kilometers to at least two comets, the spacecraft will take the sharpest pictures yet of a nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system. Launch of CONTOUR aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for July 1, 2002

Stock Photo: 06/19/2002 -- On the tower at Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers look over the Comet Nucleus Tour CONTOUR spacecraft before removing.

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