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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Press Site auditorium in Florida, Scott Colloredo, NASA 21st Century Ground Systems project manager, gives the media representatives who will be taking the 21st Century Ground Systems tour an overview of the locations they will be visiting, including the Vehicle Assembly Building, a crawler-transporter parked on the crawlerway, the new mobile launcher on Launch Pad 39B, and the Launch Control Center's Firing Room 1. These facilities and equipment will be used to prepare and launch NASA's new Orion spacecraft on the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket. The tour was arranged as part of prelaunch media activities for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch. Liftoff of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is planned during a launch window which extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 26. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann