NASA launches rocket Atlas

After multiple scrubs, United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches from Complex 41 in the early hours of Aug. 30. Atlas 5 is carrying two heavily shielded 1,400-pound satellites, Radiation Belt Storm Probes, that will fly in tandem through Earth's energetic Van Allen radiation belts in a two-year mission to probe the structure of the huge doughnut-shaped zones, how they are affected by titanic solar storms and the threat they pose to astronauts and costly spacecraft, according to CBS News "Space Place". (United Launch Alliance/Pat Corkery)

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