An air-launched Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket drops from its L-1011 carrier jet and ignites off the coast of California to propel NASA's AIM spacecraft into orbit to observe clouds at the edge of space.
Source: NASA TV (4 min 10 sec MPEG-4 (H.264) file)
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