NASA Scrubs Launch of Mars Orbiter

By Pat Duggins

Published August 11, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft sits atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida Aug. 11.

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