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John F. Kennedy Space Center
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FOR RELEASE: May 3, 1999

PHOTO NO.: KSC-99PP-0494

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers at Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral Air
Station, maneuver an overhead crane toward NASA's Far Ultraviolet
Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite standing between vertical
workstands. The crane will lift FUSE to move it onto the Payload Attach
Fitting (PAF) in front of it. FUSE is undergoing a functional test of its
systems, plus installation of flight batteries and solar arrays. Developed
by The Johns Hopkins University under contract to Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md., FUSE will investigate the origin and evolution of
the lightest elements in the universe - hydrogen and deuterium. In addition,
the FUSE satellite will examine the forces and process involved in the
evolution of the galaxies, stars and planetary systems by investigating
light in the far ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. FUSE
is scheduled to be launched May 27 aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket at Launch
Complex 17.

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