Delta II First Stage
January 15, 2013
The first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II is hoisted into place at NASA's Space Launch Complex-2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket will carry NASA's National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite into space.
Image credit: NASA/Mark Mackley,VAFB
July 20, 2011
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