GRACE-FO SpaceX Launch

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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Follow-On spacecraft, a mission of NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences, launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission will measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself.

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