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A Titan IVB rocket lifts off carrying Cassini spacecraft. 10/1997

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-lus10-00503

Date

2006-10-19

A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station.