Mars Maven Going on Atlas

NASA will pay United Launch Alliance $187 million to launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) orbiter to the red planet in November 2013. Under the new contract, ULA will use an Atlas V 401 to send the atmospheric probe to Mars, including payload processing, ground support at the...

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