Mars Science Laboratory Arrival in Florida

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission’s rover, along with the mission’s descent stage, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on June 22, 2011, aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. Here, personnel unload the crated rover from the plane. Crews removed the crated spacecraft components from the C-17 and drove them to the Kennedy Space Center clean room where the spacecraft is being prepared for launch in November.