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Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment

Deploying pilots with the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings

Aircrew airmen assigned to the 376th Air Expeditionary

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft carrying the MAVEN spacecraft stops on the Shuttle Landing Facility parking apron at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3166

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft carrying the MAVEN spacecraft has arrived at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3167

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the MAVEN spacecraft, still in its shipping container, rests on the parking apron at the Shuttle Landing Facility following offload from a C-17 aircraft. The aircraft delivered MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3179

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3163

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft carrying the MAVEN spacecraft has arrived at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3168

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3162

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The MAVEN spacecraft is offloaded from a C-17 aircraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft delivered MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3176

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft rolls to a stop on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3164

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare to offload the MAVEN spacecraft from a C-17 aircraft. The aircraft is delivering MAVEN for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3171

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft arrives on the Shuttle Landing Facility parking apron at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2013-3165

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A C-17 aircraft arrives on the Shuttle Landing Facility parking apron at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The aircraft is delivering the MAVEN spacecraft for processing ahead of a launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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AIRMAN First Class Jason Jacobs searches an apprehended trespasser, STAFF Sergeant James Blakely a 23rd Fighter Squadron Crew CHIEF, and volunteer bad guy, while, SENIOR AIRMAN Julio Figueroa, center, and SSGT Kenneth Genter guards the scene during a security test at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany

A view of an AV-8B Harrier aircraft with a camouflage paint scheme, as it is marshaled onto the runway apron by a ground crew member. The Harrier is from Marine Light Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231)

C-47 AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT - P-61 BLACK WIDOW AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT - F-106 AIRPLANE TOUCH DOWN - B-57 AIRPLANE ON APRON - AJ-2 AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT - NAVION L-17 AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT

A front view of a T-39 Sabreliner VIP transport aircraft parked on the runaway apron

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, final preparations are made to the interior of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft before it is towed to the mate-demate device for mating with space shuttle Discovery. This SCA, designated NASA 905, is a Boeing 747 jet originally manufactured for commercial use, which was modified by NASA to transport the shuttles between destinations on Earth. NASA 905 is assigned to the remaining ferry missions, delivering the shuttles to their permanent public display sites. Discovery’s new home will be the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. For more information on the SCA, visit http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-013-DFRC.html. For more information on shuttle transition and retirement activities, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2012-2187

An F-106 Delta Dart aircraft from the 102nd Fighter Interceptor Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard, taxis across the parking apron during the air-to-air weapons meet WILLIAM TELL '84. The tail sections of several 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron F-106s are visible in the background

Senior Airman Desiree Lemus, 21st Airlift Squadron

The fruits of victory / Leonebel Jacobs.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations are under way to tow the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to the mate-demate device for mating with space shuttle Discovery. This SCA, designated NASA 905, is a Boeing 747 jet originally manufactured for commercial use, which was modified by NASA to transport the shuttles between destinations on Earth. NASA 905 is assigned to the remaining ferry missions, delivering the shuttles to their permanent public display sites. Discovery’s new home will be the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. For more information on the SCA, visit http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-013-DFRC.html. For more information on shuttle transition and retirement activities, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2012-2191

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Protective doors are closed around NASA's MAVEN spacecraft at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 shortly after the spacecraft was hoisted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The Atlas V will lift MAVEN into space and on to Mars. MAVEN is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2013-3899

A Royal Air Force (British) BAe Hawk aircraft assigned to the Royal Air Force Red Arrows flight demonstration team is parked on the apron, while seven other Hawk aircraft are in flight overhead during the Open House Air Show

The gun named “Honor” fires one of 11 blank volleys

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mars maven kennedy space center cape canaveral aircraft apron maven spacecraft maven spacecraft launch year atlas rocket launch alliance atlas v rocket mars atmosphere mars atmosphere volatile evolution volatile evolution orbit orbit mars study planet detail tim jacobs space shuttle high resolution military aircraft nasa