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KSC-2011-6547
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a section of the clamshell-shaped Delta payload fairing moves into place to enclose NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft. The fairing will protect the spacecraft from the impact of aerodynamic pressure and heating during ascent and will be jettisoned once the spacecraft is outside the Earth's atmosphere.
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Credit lineKSC-2011-6547. NASA/KSC, 2011-08-23. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-6547.
