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Rollout to the Launch Pad

At Space Launch Complex 41, a pond reflects the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Vertical Integration Facility against a blue sky flecked with white clouds.
At Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a pond reflects the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Vertical Integration Facility against a blue sky flecked with white clouds.

At Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a pond reflects the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and Vertical Integration Facility against a blue sky flecked with white clouds. Atop the rocket is NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, enclosed in its payload fairing.
Image credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
Nov. 25, 2011