Nov. 18, 2013 — The engine ignites under the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, lifting NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft off Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Launch was on schedule at 1:28 p.m. EST Nov. 18 at the opening of a two-hour launch window.
Nov. 18, 2013 — The engine ignites under the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, lifting NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft off Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Launch was on schedule at 1:28 p.m. EST at the opening of a two-hour launch window.
Image credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Rick Wetherington