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At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, sits atop to a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Image credit: NASA/ Glenn Benson Jan. 20, 2013