Getting NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to the Launch Pad

In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States. The rover was built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and then carefully packed and flown to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. There, engineers integrated the rover with the spacecraft that carries it to Mars, and the Atlas V rocket chosen to send it on its way.

The launch period for the Perseverance rover opens July 30, 2020.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[orangetux]

I worked on the actuators for Mars Perseverance at JPL and I am very proud of this mission. It is one of the highlights of my engineering career.

[JesusMendoza-fyxf]

Awesome to see how perseverance gets to the rocket 🚀

[tanjirokamodo]

Mad respect to scientists at NASA. You all have big pp.

[CodeLeeCarter]

The views the public are going to see from this mission will be out of this world, ... Literary.
An unprecedented amount of cameras to film the decent, ... can't wait!

[zapfanzapfan]

I had no hand in it and I am nervous for the launch. I can't image the level of anxiety among the people who spent years building it.

[adamjbond]

Now this is how I like to see my tax dollars spent.

[onalennasehume]

Wow... Must be such a bitter-sweet moment for the scientists who built the rover to watch it leave like that

[visibleconfusion]

for anyone wondering why theres so much extra space in the fairings, they are standard fairings and used in all missions on that rocket, they would need to do so much work to design, create and test new fairings that will be used once around that payload

[wallstreetmemeers]

Finally something good to come of 2020

[amolkechale]

Salute for everyone for working this project

[dods]

I hope Perseverance will land safely on Mars and complete it's mission. Salute to all the people behind this mission.

[hanaaco]

This seems like a movie trailer. I'm very excited!

[BradiKal]

Something for America to be proud of in these crazy times.

[beny.]

1:15 interesting how the box is air conditioned!

[DGFishRfine]

It feels weird to say this about a federally run YouTube channel, but the choice of music was actually excellent


EDIT: WE ON MARS, BITCHEZ

[brianfoss]

1:15 - The "HND SGHT" license plate is gold.

[beryl]

Can't believe it's about to happen :), time surely flies

[auguslan]

So cool! I’m hyped for the launch and to see what discoveries perseverance will make! Thank you to everyone who worked on this!

[slauberr]

If Opportunity was “Oppy”, would Perseverance be “Percy”???

[DelsonFilho]

Good luck Perseverance Mars Rover and all coworkes that are involved in this advanced work. Thank NASA for this vídeo! ❤❤❤