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Charleston C-17 crew transports NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander

070507-O-4913D-001 BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Tech. Sgt. James Hader, a loadmaster with the 16th Airlift Squadron from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. secures NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in a C-17 here May 7. The lander, which was built at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company's Waterton Canyon facilities in Littleton, Colo., was loaded on a C-17 for transportation to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final test and launch preparations. The Phoenix lander is slated for liftoff aboard a Delta II launch vehicle in early August. (Photo by Chuck Diggle)

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