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Countdown to Impact

		Impactor release: Sunday 2:07 a.m. EDT Impact with comet: Monday 1:52 a.m. EDT First post-impact photo: Monday 2:08 a.m. EDT Detailed timeline Impactor release story Mission Status Center Photo: Impactor deploy Video coverage

The Mission

		NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fire a projectile into the heart of Comet Tempel 1 to expose materials frozen inside the rocky snowball since the solar system formed four billion years ago. Mission overview Info on comets The science objectives Spacecraft fact sheet

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Posted: June 28, 2005

Source: NASA

Viking patch

This embroidered mission patch celebrates NASA's Viking Project which reached the Red Planet in 1976.

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Shuttle pin

This lapel pin features the official crew emblem for the STS-121 space shuttle mission. The emblem depicts Discovery docked to the International Space Station.

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Apollo 7 DVD

For 11 days the crew of Apollo 7 fought colds while they put the Apollo spacecraft through a workout, establishing confidence in the machine what would lead directly to the bold decision to send Apollo 8 to the moon just 2 months later.

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From the NASA Archives

This three-disc DVD contains rare footage from the pioneering Gemini space missions of the 1960s and an original hour-long documentary.

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