Photos: Liftoff of Atlas 5 from California

United Launch Alliance teams mounted a top secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office on top of an Atlas 5 rocket Monday at Cape Canaveral in preparation for a liftoff scheduled just after sunset Nov. 3.

The Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule climb the ramp to pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center ahead of next week’s crew launch in this time-lapse video.

Orbital ATK’s next commercial resupply freighter going to the International Space Station will be named the S.S. John Glenn, paying tribute to the legendary first American to orbit the Earth.