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Eclipse Rocket

Photo: NASA/Chris Pirner

NASA engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal bids farewell to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the April 8 total solar eclipse. The rocket was one of three launched as part of the APEP mission to study ionospheric disturbances caused by the eclipse.

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