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    Posted August 5, 2011 by
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    Atlas 5 Rocket takes Juno Spacecraft to Jupiter

    By Skinnywater  |  Posted August 5, 2011  |  Cape Canaveral, Florida
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Skinnywater says he's always happy to see a launch. He's seen lots of them, living so close to Cape Canaveral. Skinnywater added that a lot of people don't realize there's still lots going on with space, and he isn't worried about the end of NASA's shuttle program -- it's 30 years old, after all, and he believes something else will come along. 'There's no sense in being nostalgic about outdated technology,' he said.
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    An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, sending a robotic scout on its way to Jupiter to sniff out details about how the solar system formed.

    The rocket carrying NASA's Juno spacecraft lifted off at 12:25 p.m. (1625 GMT), the first step in a five-year, 445-million mile (716-million km) journey to the largest planet in the solar system.

    Launch was delayed almost an hour while United Launch Alliance, a Boeing (BA.N)-Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) joint venture that builds and flies Atlas and Delta rockets for NASA, the military and commercial customers, fixed a technical problem with ground support equipment that supplies a helium purge to the rocket.



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