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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An early morning sunrise partially illuminates the Mobile Launcher, or ML, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Railroad tracks are visible in the foreground. In 2013, the agency awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the ML, which is one of the key elements of ground support equipment that is being upgraded by the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at Kennedy. The ML will carry the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for its first mission, Exploration Mission 1, in 2017. Photo credit: NASA_Ben Smegelsky