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Into the Truck
Wrapped in protective film,
the MESSENGER spacecraft is loaded into a moving van March 9
at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for
the drive to Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Fla., site of its scheduled August 2004 launch toward the first
study of the planet Mercury from orbit.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of
Washington