NASA's next Mars probe is ready for a Monday launch to the Red Planet.
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe (MAVEN for short) is set to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday (Nov. 18) at 1:28 p.m. EST (1828 GMT). You can watch MAVEN's launch on SPACE.com, courtesy of NASA.
"This Wednesday, we just completed our flight readiness review," Omar Baez, NASA launch director at Kennedy Space Center, told reporters during a news briefing today (Nov. 15). "Yesterday we held our mission dress rehearsal and this morning, we completed our NASA launch readiness review. All were very successful." [NASA's MAVEN Mission to Mars (Photos)]
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