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Payload Fairing Installation Around the Dawn Spacecraft

Payload Fairing Installation Around the Dawn Spacecraft
Photojournal: PIA12017
Source: NASA/JPL
Published: May 29, 2009

Technician helps guide the second half of the fairing for installation around NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

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