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David Weldon: “I rise to speak on the recent Cassini mission to Saturn. This was a successful launch on a Titan launch vehicle that…”

On the recordOctober 21, 1997
I rise to speak on the recent Cassini mission to Saturn. This was a successful launch on a Titan launch vehicle that left Cape Canaveral a week ago tomorrow morning. Actually, it was 4 a.m. on Wednesday. It was a mission that garnered a lot of publicity, primarily because the probe, this deep space probe that was going to one of the moons of Saturn, it is a moon called Titan, it had a plutonium power source on it. The source of electricity to run all the computers and the sensors on this satellite, this probe, was plutonium, and as everybody knows, plutonium is radioactive and it is dangerous. Mr. Speaker, as soon as I heard about this mission 6 months ago or so and I knew it was going to be going off, I immediately had some of the leaders of the Cassini program from NASA come into my office and brief me, because I live in that area and I remember very well the controversy surrounding the Galileo mission.
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David Weldon
Republican · Florida
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Discussing the Cassini mission to Saturn and concerns about its plutonium power source.

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