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Launch!

New Pictures Released 4 February 1997!

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Remote Camera View of the Launch

Time Lapse Photograph of Launch Sequence

 

Waiting to Launch Up!#1 Up!#2 And Away!

Waiting to launch...
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Up!
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Up!
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And Away!
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Photos courtesy of Kennedy Space Center

Composite Launch

Mars Pathfinder Launch viewed from Jetty Park, FL
Courtesy of Tim Parker, JPL

Mission Status, December 10, 1996

Mars Pathfinder is on its way to Mars! The spacecraft was launched on December 4, 1996 at 1:58:07 am EST (10:58:07 pm PST) on a Delta II rocket. Please click on the links below to go to the Kennedy Space Center for:


This document was updated on: 4 February 1997

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