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{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          21-Jul-2004

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. The MESSENGER spacecraft leaves the
                Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., aboard a
                transporter, bound for Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air
                Force Station. It will be mated to the Boeing Delta II Heavy
                rocket for liftoff on Aug. 2. The spacecraft is expected to reach
                orbit around the planet in March 2011. MESSENGER was built for
                NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
                in Laurel, Md.

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