The First Atlas 5 Launches from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

 ( Read more about this mission click here)


 The Atlas 5 which is 191 feet tall and weighs 737,500 pounds.
 rolls out to the pad the day before launch.
 
 


  Engine start command is at T- 2.7 seconds with a
Russian-made RD-180 main engine.
 
 

   
Liftoff was at 6:05pm EDT Aug. 21,2002 from Canaveral's Complex 41 launch pad.
 
 
 



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