A Titan IVB rocket lifts off carrying Cassini spacecraft. 10/1997
auteur: Nasa/Novapix
référence: e-lus10-00502
Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 24 cm
A seven-year journey to the ringed planet Saturn begins with the liftoff of a Titan IVB/Centaur carrying the Cassini orbiter and its attached Huygens probe. Launch occurred at 4:43 a.m. EDT, Oct. 15, from Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Station.