<b>Description:</b> The Atlas V/Centaur rocket climbs up and away from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Safely tucked inside the protective payload fairing are NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. June 18, 2009 Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71171454" class="extiw" title="d:Q71171454"><span title="American photographer">Bill Ingalls</span></a>
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2009-06-18
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