To the Moon! Lunar Missions Successfully Launch

After waiting out a thunderstorm, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocketed off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 18, 2009. This photograph captures the pair of spacecraft as they were lifting off.

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NASA photographs provided courtesy of the Kennedy Space Flight Center Public Affairs Office. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published June 20, 2009
Data acquired June 18, 2009

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