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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers move the container holding NASA's Juno high-gain antenna container away from the ramp of an Air Force C-17 jet at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. The spacecraft and its high-gain antenna was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and will be transported to Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. to begin final preparations for launch. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. Juno is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aug. 5. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller