A monster United Launch Alliance Delta-IV Heavy rocket launches a top-secret classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office June 29, 2012 - mission designate NROL-15. The world's most powerful rocket thundered into clear blue skies from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, rattling the Earth for miles around as it climbed to orbit. 

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