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Shuttle Columbia Launches from KSC

July 23, 1999

At 12:31 a.m. EDT Columbia lifted off with Chandra aboard. Deployment occurred at 7:47 a.m. An hour later the first of two solid rocket boosters was successfully fired and Chandra began its journey to reach its planned highly elliptical orbit, which should be complete August 4.

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