Cruise Vehicles (Artist Concept)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Aug. 2, 2012
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This set of artist's concepts shows NASA's Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA's Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA's Johnson Space Center and will one day send astronauts to Mars. The rover Curiosity is tucked inside of the Mars Science Laboratory cruise vehicle like human beings would be tucked inside Orion.