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{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          01-Jul-2004

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. A second Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)
                for the MESSENGER spacecraft launch is raised from its
                transporter to lift up the mobile service tower at Pad 17-B, Cape
                Canaveral Air Force Station. The first SRB is seen at right. The
                SRBs will be mated to the Boeing Delta II Heavy rocket for the
                Aug. 2 launch to the planet Mercury. The spacecraft is expected
                to reach orbit around Mercury in March 2011. MESSENGER was built
                for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
                Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

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{keywords}      NASA,KSC,Kennedy Space Center

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{number}        KSC-04PD-1408

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{title}         KSC-04PD-1408

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