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GLAST Launch (2010)

2010 · Short film · 2 min

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At 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful Florida sky headed for space. GLAST is now on its own with its solar arrays deployed and placed into a circular orbit 350 miles above the Earth, prepared to monitor the universe and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts. No copyright protection is asserted for this video. It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA employees of a commercial…

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