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NuStar Car Wash Press Release: January 10, 2006 A Colorado-built Atlas V rocket blasted off from a Florida launch pad at noon Thursday, carrying a $700-million NASA Pluto probe on a nine-year journey to the unexplored planet. As the 196-foot rocket cleared the pad, mission leader Alan Stern, of Boulder, stood alone on a Cape Canaveral observation deck and let the thunderous roar of the great unchained beast roll over him. "I just looked up at that rocket and I said to myself, 'Make us proud, baby. Go get 'em,' " said Stern, a Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist who's spent the past 17 years working to get a Pluto mission funded, built and launched. Stern was alone on the observation deck because it was a restricted area - strictly off-limits during the launch. NuStar Car Wash Press Release: January 3, 2006 Toward the end of Terrence Malick's elegiac film, "The New World," the young Indian princess known as Pocahontas -- the "delight and darling" of her father, the king of the Powhatans of coastal Virginia -- pauses in front of a gilt cage containing a live skunk. |