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KSC-2009-1677
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, cranes wait in the early morning hours for winds to subside in order to lift the tent that covers NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, the Taurus XL upper stack and the umbilical tower. The upper stack, consists of stages 1, 2 and 3 of the Taurus. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard Orbital Sciences' Taurus XL rocket Feb. 24 from Vandenberg.
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Credit lineKSC-2009-1677. NASA/KSC, 2009-02-18. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-1677.
