Science and Exploration

Mars 2020 Rover Arrives At Its Launch Site

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
February 13, 2020
Filed under , ,
Mars 2020 Rover Arrives At Its Launch Site
Mars 2020
NASA

The Mars 2020 rover is offloaded from a C-17 aircraft at the Launch and Landing Facility, formerly known as the Shuttle Landing Facility, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 12, 2020.
The rover made a cross-country trip to the Florida spaceport that started at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The mission, targeted for mid-July 2020, will launch aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch.

Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-20200212-PH-CSH01_0037 larger image

SpaceRef co-founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.