At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will launch NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission undergoes final preparations for launch. The "rollback" of the mobile service tower began at about 11:20 p.m. EDT Sept. 7.
At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will launch NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission undergoes final preparations for launch. The “rollback” of the mobile service tower began at about 11:20 p.m. EDT Sept. 7.
Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Sept. 7, 2011