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Take a look inside Juno's ride to Florida BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: April 9, 2011 
An Air Force C-17 Globemaster was the muscle behind Friday's shipment of the Juno spacecraft from Colorado to Florida. Billed as the most flexible cargo plane in the U.S. military, the C-17 can carry oversized loads like tanks, humvees, presidential limos and spacecraft over long distances. Built by Boeing, the C-17 is also designed to operate in and out of austere fields with unprepared dirt runways as small as 3,500 feet long and 90 feet wide. Powered by four reversible jet engines mounted on the wings, the aircraft measures nearly 170 feet across, 174 feet long and 55 feet tall. It can haul more than 170,000 pounds of cargo. These photos show what it's like inside and around the massive plane. The images were taken on the ground before and after Friday's flight because the Air Force prohibited photography in the air.
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