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Video: X-37B payload mated to Atlas 5

May 12, 2015 Justin Ray

Already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, the Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane is hoisted atop the Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility.

Credit: ULA

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