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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles
"A valuable contribution to the field of aerospace literature," this book includes an extensive overview of Delta history and development along with chapters on Atlas, Titan, Scout, Space Shuttle, and much more.
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22-Dec-03 | Delta flight 302 – NAVSTAR IIR-10
Early Sunday morning, 21 December, at 08:05 UTC, the seventh and final Delta II launch of 2003 took NAVSTAR IIR-10 into orbit to continue the replenishment of the Global Positioning System. The chilly Florida air was not a constraint for either the rocket or the payload, and the countdown was typically quiet — until an alarm sounded within the T-minus two minute mark. T-zero was pushed to the end of the window, the alarm was found to be a non-issue, and the countdown resumed to a perfect, daylight-bright liftoff. Delta flight 302 deployed SVN-47 into its proper transfer orbit just over 68 minutes later. (By the way, this reporter slept through it all… but Justin Ray was awake.)