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Voyager 2 Preparing for Launch
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Caption:
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen on August 5, 1977. It launched atop the Titan/Centaur-7 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on August 20, 1977, at 10:29 a.m. local time.
Background Info:
Voyager is managed for NASA by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
For more information about Voyager, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| System | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Voyager | |
| Instrument Host | Voyager 2 | |
| Host Type | Flyby Spacecraft | |
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Grayscale | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2017-07-05 | |
| Date in Caption | 1977-08-05 | 1977-08-20 |
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21742 | |
| Identifier | PIA21742 | |
