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Mat Kaplan, Bruce Betts and Emily Lakdawalla on stage for the Planetary Society’s launch party for the MAVEN launch. Image via the author.
If you can’t attend a rocket launch live, the next best thing might be watching it on a big screen, surrounded by fellow space fans. Today, as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft sat atop an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, space lovers from southern California collected at the Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena California to watch the launch together.
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