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KSC-2009-1684

NASA / KSC · 2009-02-18 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, two cranes raise NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, spacecraft to vertical for attachment to the waiting Stage 0 motor of the Taurus XL launch vehicle in the tower. The OCO is attached to the upper stack, consisting 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-2009-1684. NASA/KSC, 2009-02-18. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-1684.

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