
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the early morning hours, the encapsulated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) passes the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center while being transported from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The MRO is the next major step in Mars exploration and scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a window opening Aug. 10.
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