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To the Moon! Lunar Missions Successfully Launch

After waiting out a thunderstorm, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocketed off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 18, 2009. This photograph captures the pair of spacecraft as they were lifting off.


NASA photographs provided courtesy of the Kennedy Space Flight Center Public Affairs Office. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published June 20, 2009
Data acquired June 18, 2009

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