{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          24-Feb-2003

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Boeing Delta II rocket, the
                launch vehicle for the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, stands
                upright in the launch tower on Launch Complex 17-B, Cape
                Canaveral Air Force Station. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra
                by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in
                space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one-
                millionth of a meter). Most of this infrared radiation is blocked
                by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot be observed from the ground.
                Consisting of an 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically
                cooled science instruments, SIRTF is one of NASA's largest
                infrared telescopes to be launched. Its highly sensitive
                instruments will give a unique view of the Universe and peer into
                regions of space that are hidden from optical telescopes on the
                ground or orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope.

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