At Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 in California, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket lifts off the launch pad carrying NASA's National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft toward Earth orbit.
At Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-2 in California, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket lifts off the launch pad carrying NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft toward Earth orbit.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Oct. 28, 2011