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Beginning the Journey to the Launch Pad

Beginning the Journey to the Launch Pad

NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission is lowered into its shipping container at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Va. It is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 14, 2012.

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January 25, 2012

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