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Lunar satellites loaded aboard cargo plane
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: May 23, 2011


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NASA's GRAIL satellites were loaded into an Air Force C-17 cargo plane in Denver Friday for a three-hour flight to the Kennedy Space Center, where the spacecraft will undergo final launch preparations for liftoff to the moon Sept. 8.

Photo credit: Pat Corkery/Lockheed Martin