Mars 2020 Liftoff
Erik Durnberg, a structural dynamics engineer with NASA’s Launch Services Program, participates in a Mars 2020 VIP briefing at the Operations and Support Building II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30, 2020, before launch of the Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 7:50 a.m. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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KSC-20200730-PH-GMW02_0175
Date Created
July 30, 2020
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Gianni Woods
Location
OSB II
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