KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The final Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) arrive at Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, for mating with the Boeing Delta II Heavy rocket that will launch the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) spacecraft. Scheduled to lift off Aug. 2, bound for Mercury, the spacecraft is expected to reach orbit around Mercury in March 2011. MESSENGER was built for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date July 6, 2004