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KSC-04PD-2117

NASA / KSC · 2004-10-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — At Launch Pad 17-A on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the second stage of the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle (at left) is being lifted up the mobile service tower for mating with the first stage (seen at right). The rocket is the launch vehicle for the Swift spacecraft and its Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, now scheduled for liftoff Nov. 8. Swift is a medium-class Explorer mission managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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Credit lineKSC-04PD-2117. NASA/KSC, 2004-10-08. Public domain. ID: 04pd2117.
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