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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station workers check the Booster SRB waiting to be lifted up the mobile service tower.
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
On Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, workers check the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) waiting to be lifted up the mobile service tower. The SRB and eight others will be mated to the Boeing Delta II Heavy rocket for the Aug. 2 launch of the MESSENGER spacecraft to the planet Mercury. The spacecraft is expected to reach orbit around Mercury in March 2011. MESSENGER was built for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
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- Title: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station workers check the Booster SRB waiting to be lifted up the mobile service tower.
- Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
- About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description
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