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KSC-2009-3793
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Smoke rolls across Launch Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air force Station in Florida as the Atlas V/Centaur rocket topped with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, lifts off. Launch was on-time at 5:32 p.m. EDT June 18. LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020.
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Credit lineKSC-2009-3793. NASA/KSC, 2009-06-18. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-3793.
