PIA21727: Voyager 2 in Launch Vehicle
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen in August 1977, as it was being hoisted upward for attachment to its launch vehicle at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Product Size:  649 x 699 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen in August 1977, as it was being hoisted upward for attachment to its launch vehicle at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Voyager is managed for NASA by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

For more information about Voyager, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov.

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Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC

Image Addition Date:
2017-07-05