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... 96pc1325	Up! 96pc1322	Up! 96pc1323	And Away! 96pc1324

Photos courtesy of Kennedy Space Center

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:

JPEGs of the Launch released by the KSC Public Affairs Office! (seen above)
Pictures of Pre-Launch and Launch
MPEG video of the launch (840K)

This document was updated on: 4 February 1997

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