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		Rocket: Delta 4 Medium Payload: DMSP F17 Date: November 4, 2006 Window: 5:52-6:02 a.m. PST (8:52-9:02 a.m. EST) Site: SLC-6, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Broadcast: AMC 1, Transponder 17, C-band, 103° West Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Delta 4 background info Rocket processing flow RS-68 main engine Booster graphic Our Delta archive

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Photo gallery: Preps for Delta 4 launch of DMSP F17

The Boeing Delta 4 rocket stands atop Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 6 awaiting liftoff of the DMSP F17 weather satellite.

Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News

Photo credit: William G. Hartenstein

Viking patch

This embroidered mission patch celebrates NASA's Viking Project which reached the Red Planet in 1976.

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Shuttle pin

This lapel pin features the official crew emblem for the STS-121 space shuttle mission. The emblem depicts Discovery docked to the International Space Station.

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Apollo 7 DVD

For 11 days the crew of Apollo 7 fought colds while they put the Apollo spacecraft through a workout, establishing confidence in the machine what would lead directly to the bold decision to send Apollo 8 to the moon just 2 months later.

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From the NASA Archives

This three-disc DVD contains rare footage from the pioneering Gemini space missions of the 1960s and an original hour-long documentary.

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