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Keith Cowing
An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft was launched 10:02 a.m. EST. First stage and second operations were nominal. Spacecraft is in coast phase until second engine burn to send it on its way to Mars.
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