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KSC-2012-3256
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Technicians attach a coolant line to the fairing enclosing NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mated to Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus XL rocket, beneath Orbital’s L-1011 carrier aircraft at the “hot pad,” located on the ramp adjacent to the runway on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The duo will be flown from Vandenberg to the U.S.
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Credit lineKSC-2012-3256. NASA/KSC, 2012-06-02. Public domain. ID: KSC-2012-3256.
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