CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all elements of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission have come together. The top portion is More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is ready to be enclosed in the Atlas V rocket payload fairing More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spacecraft technicians prepare to enclose NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in an Atlas V rocket More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sections of an Atlas V rocket payload fairing engulf NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) as they c More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spacecraft technicians align the sections of an Atlas V rocket payload fairing around NASA's Mars Sc More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spacecraft technicians secure an Atlas V rocket payload fairing around NASA's Mars Science Laborator More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sections of an Atlas V rocket payload fairing obscure NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) from vie More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians prepare to lift the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas V ro More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians attach a lifting device to the payload fairing of an Atlas V rocket. The fairing must b More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians inside NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility have attached a lifting device to the Atlas V rocket's payload fairing enclosing the Mars Science Labo More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Atlas V rocket's payload fairing containing the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft stands More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Atlas V payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft is moved toward a waiting transporter inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Sp More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an Atlas V rocket's payload fairing, containing the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, is in More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft is hoisted to the top of the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41, where it will be att More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Standing atop a payload transporter, the Atlas V rocket payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft rolls out of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility a More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft has been attached to its Atlas V rocket. M More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Standing atop a payload transporter, the Atlas V payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft rolls down a darkened roadway during the early morning move fr More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The predawn light reveals the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft as it is prepared to be lifted into place atop the Atlas V rocket already waiting More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, a lifting device is attached to the Atlas V payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spa More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft rises from the transporter below as it is lifted up the side of the Vertical In More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 towers above the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft as activities begin to lift and m More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft has been attached to a lifting device in order to be raised and attached to the More