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Flight 158's Ariane 5 nears the completion of today's transfer
process as it approaches the Final Integration Building at the Spaceport. This building's height provides sufficient room for the Rosetta space probe and its protective payload fairing to be hoisted up and installed atop Ariane 5. Rosetta was developed by the European Space Agency and will rendezvous with
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.