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KSC-04pd1626
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The tip of the Boeing Delta II rocket with its MESSENGER spacecraft on top breaks through the billows of smoke below as it lifts off on time at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) is on a seven-year journey to the planet Mercury.
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Credit lineKSC-04pd1626. NASA/KSC, 2004-08-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-04pd1626.
