KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - An overhead crane lifts the encapsulated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) up the Vertical Integration Facility on Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft will be mated with the Atlas V rocket already there. The MRO is the next major step in Mars exploration and scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a window opening Aug. 10.

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