Atlas 5 rocket
Volga-Dnepr Delivers United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 Rocket for NASA’s Next Mars Rover Mission
On 18 th May, Volga-Dnepr transported an Atlas 5 rocket booster to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a scheduled mission to Mars. The AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’, is the only aircraft large enough to carry the Atlas 5, and flew the 32-meter long rocket booster, from Huntsville, Alabama to its final launc...