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Feb 16, 2012
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Now inside a tilt-rotation fixture and covered in protective plastic, NASA's...
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Jun 23, 2012
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
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Jun 27, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech's Hazardous Processing Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians use an...
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Jun 27, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers prepare to transport NASA's Juno spacecraft from Astrotech's Payload Processing...
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Sep 23, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
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Feb 16, 2012
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Technicians watch closely as NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft is Under the watchful...
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Nov 4, 2003
VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - In the NASA spacecraft processing facility on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Gravity Probe B spacecraft is seen with two solar array panels installed. Installing each array is a 3-day process and includes a functional deployment test. The Gravity Probe B mission is a relativity experiment developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Stanford University and Lockheed Martin. The spacecraft will test two extraordinary predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity that he advanced in 1916: the geodetic effect (how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth) and frame dragging (how Earth’s rotation drags space and time around with it). Gravity Probe B consists of four sophisticated gyroscopes that will provide an almost perfect space-time reference system. The mission will look in a precision manner for tiny changes in the direction of spin.
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Jul 13, 2012
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a large crane lifts the...
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Aug 30, 2012
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With its engines burning bright against the late night sky, the United Launch Alliance Atlas...
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May 21, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., remove the...
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Jun 17, 2009
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Atlas V/Centaur rocket with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar...
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Jun 21, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers prepare the fifth and final solid...
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Oct 10, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
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Apr 8, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Juno spacecraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida...
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Apr 7, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the first stage of a United Launch Alliance...
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May 21, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The two spacecraft for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, are atop...
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Mar 26, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., unfurl solar...
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May 21, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., prepare NASA's...
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Apr 12, 2011
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- In Space Systems International's Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air...
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Jun 18, 2009
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V/Centaur carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
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Sep 15, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With a view taken from inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on...
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Jun 25, 2011
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
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Jul 19, 2011
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A United Launch Alliance Delta II stands tall on Space Launch Complex-2 at...
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Sep 23, 2011
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
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