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KSC-01padig-235

NASA / KSC · 2001-06-30 · photograph (digital archive)

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Boeing Delta II rocket is poised for flight on Launch Complex 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, after rollback of the Mobile Service Tower (right). Topping the rocket is the payload, the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) spacecraft. Launch is scheduled at 3:46 p.m. EDT June 30. The launch will place MAP into a lunar-assisted trajectory to the Sun-Earth for a 27-month mission.

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Credit lineKSC-01padig-235. NASA/KSC, 2001-06-30. Public domain. ID: 01padig235.
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