In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility is lifted from its transporter.

In NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the third stage, or upper stage for the New Horizons spacecraft is lifted from its transporter. The third stage, a Boeing STAR 48 solid-propellant kick motor, is being moved to a work stand, in the foreground at right. The launch vehicle for New Horizons is the Atlas V rocket, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a 35-day window that opens Jan. 11, and fly through the Pluto system as early as summer 2015.