Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report | Mobile service gantry retracted for launch

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		Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-006) Payload: NROL-28 Date: March 13, 2008 Time: 3:02 a.m. PDT (6:02 a.m. EDT) Site: Complex 3-East, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Broadcast: G26, Transp. 9, C-band Mission Status Center Atlas 5 background info Atlas archive

Mobile service gantry retracted for launch
Posted: March 13, 2008

About four-and-a-half hours before liftoff time, 8-million-pound mobile service tower was rolled back from the Atlas 5 rocket at the Space Launch Complex-3 East pad.

Credit: Pat Corkery/ULA

Credit: Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas/Air Force

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