Friday, September 27, 2013

MAVEN Spreads Its Wings One Last Time Before Launch...

Reporters and photographers gather in front of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft as it was put on display for the media to see at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on September 27, 2013.
NASA / Kim Shiflett

Almost two months after arriving at Cape Canaveral in Florida (and exactly six years after NASA's Dawn spacecraft launched on its mission to explore the Asteroid Belt), the MAVEN spacecraft is now fully assembled and less than two months away from soaring to Mars aboard an Atlas V rocket. Check out these photos taken earlier today as the media got to visit MAVEN at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before the orbiter undergoes a final series of tests prior to being loaded with fuel (scheduled for next month) and then being mated with the Atlas V (scheduled for early November). The MAVEN team has entered home stretch for launch preparations, just before lift-off is set to occur from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on November 18.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is prepped for display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on September 24, 2013.
NASA / Jim Grossmann

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is put on display for the media to see at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on September 27, 2013.
NASA / Kim Shiflett

Reporters and photographers gather in front of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft as it was put on display for the media to see at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on September 27, 2013.
NASA / Kim Shiflett
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