File:Atlas V(401) launches with LRO and LCROSS.jpg

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Description	English: Trailing a column of fire, the Atlas V(401) carrying NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, hurtles off Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. LRO and LCROSS are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. The LRO also includes seven instruments that will help NASA characterize the moon's surface: DIVINER, LAMP, LEND, LOLA , CRATER, Mini-RF and LROC. Launch was on-time at 21:32 UTC. Deutsch: Eine Atlas V(401) startet mit den Mondsonden LRO and LCROSS von Startplatz 41 in Cap Chanaveral um 21:32 Uhr UTC.
Date	18 June 2009
Source	https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-2009-3781 http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=41915 on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine
Author	NASA/Tom Farrar, Kevin O'Connell

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