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  • Same day rollouts and launches could return to Atlas 5 program

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    Credit: James Murati/Bionetics Photo Services CAPE CANAVERAL — Returning to the days of rollouts and launches in a span of only a few hours, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 program is looking to resume this whirlwind experience. It was a procedure used in the early days of the program a decade ago, moving the…

  • Photos: Atlas 5 rollout

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    The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on Wednesday morning, emerging from the Vertical Integration Facility assembly hangar where the two-stage rocket was put together. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani  

  • Atlas 5 rolled to the pad for Thursday night’s liftoff

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — Riding the rails to the launch pad Wednesday morning, the Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 for liftoff Thursday night to deploy four NASA satellites that will probe Earth’s magnetosphere for a high-priority research project. Liftoff of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, is slated for 10:44…

  • Photos: Atlas in the roll

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    The Atlas 5 rocket emerges from the Vertical Integration Facility for rollout to Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch MUOS No. 3 Tuesday evening. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance   The sun sets over Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 following Monday’s rollout of the Atlas 5 rocket to the launch pad for the…

  • NASA’s first Orion capsule delivered to launch pad

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    Orion passes the VAB. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA’s Orion spacecraft took a road trip to the launch pad Tuesday night, arriving at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 where a Delta 4-Heavy rocket awaits flight of the new capsule on Dec. 4. The unmanned Exploration Flight Test No. 1 will send Orion around…

  • Photo gallery: Delta 4-Heavy moved to launch pad

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    The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket for Exploration Flight Test-1 is rolled to the launch pad and lifted to the vertical position in the mobile service tower on the pad at Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Delta 4-Heavy is being readied to launch Orion on its…