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The first Boeing Delta IV Heavy booster--a candidate to launch a manned Orbital Space Plane to supplement the shuttle--is assembled at Cape Canaveral for a U.S. Air Force demonstration flight. With three linked RS-68 engine cores, the vehicle is designed to put 50,000 lb. in low orbit and 29,000 lb...

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