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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, at right, and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana walk near NASA’s mobile launcher (ML) support structure at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A media event was held to detail ML’s use with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket, which will take astronauts into deep space on missions to asteroids, the moon or Mars. It took about two years to construct the 355-foot-tall ML structure, which will support NASA's future human spaceflight program. The ML can be outfitted with ground support equipment, such as umbilicals and access arms, for future rocket launches. Photo credit: NASA_Dimitri Gerondidakis