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In the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft has been attached to its Atlas V rocket. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Nov. 3, 2011