Delta II ACE Launch

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300th Boeing Delta Launch

Delta II Stardust Launch

Boeing Delta II launches Air Force GPS IIR-10 Satellite

Boeing Delta II Delivers First Modernized GPS Satellite to Orbit

Eutelsat Satellite Launch via Delta IV

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Delta I Launch

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Thor Delta E, S/N 39, Launch Takeoff

Boeing Delta IV Launches GOES N Satellite

Thor Delta G, S/N 43, Launch Liftoff

NASA Delta 59 Intellsation Thor Delta M

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Mercury Launch, Cape Canaveral, FL

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Delta II Launches NASA Messenger Probe to Mercury

ST. LOUIS, August 3, 2004 -- The first mission to explore the planet Mercury in more than three decades began today with the successful launch of NASAs MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space, ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II Heavy launch vehicle. The launch occurred at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Following a 57-minute flight, the spacecraft was deployed to an Earth-escape trajectory. Upon arriving at Mercury in 2008, MESSENGER will make three passes of the planet before entering orbit around it in March 2011 to become the first spacecraft to visit Mercury since Mariner 10 in 1974-75.

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