An Atlas rocket and a Global Positioning System satellite were joined together for the first time in 28 years
on May 6, 2013, as the pairing of booster and payload were united for their May 15 launch from Cape Canaveral.
Already shrouded in the launcher's 39-foot-tall, 14-foot-diameter aluminum nose cone, the spacecraft was hauled to
the Atlas assembly building and hoisted atop the Centaur upper stage by United Launch Alliance workers.
The fully assembled rocket, standing 189 feet tall for launch, will be wheeled out to the Complex 41 pad aboard a
mobile platform on May 14.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transported from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral's
Complex 41 on Tuesday morning May 14.
