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LRO-LCROSS launch by an Atlas V rocket -06/2009

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-lus06-20200

Date

2009-06-20

An Atlas V rocket blasts off with NASA's LRO/LRCOSS mission from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 5:32 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2009. The mission is expected to relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.