A Delta II rocket sits on Space Launch Complex II, at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California (CA). The rocket, originally scheduled to launch today, was rescheduled to April 20th due to high upper level winds. The Delta has the Gravity Probe-B experiment onboard, a co-developed project between National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Stanford University, to intricately measure how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Lee A. Osberry, Jr., USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
19/04/2004
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The U.S. National Archives
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