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Atlas-Centaur rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. Atlas-Centaur was a series of expendable launch vehicles (or ELVs, a launch vehicle stage that is used only once to carry a payload into space). The first Atlas-Centaur flight was in 1962, and the last flight was in 2004.