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Photo gallery: Mobile Service Tower rollback
Posted: November 5, 2004

The mobile service tower is rolled back from the Boeing Delta 2 rocket at pad 17B on November 5 for the second attempt to launch the next GPS satellite. Photo: Carleton Bailie/Boeing

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