A spectacular night launch from Cape Canaveral marked the beginning of the almost seven-year journey of the Cassini-Huygens mission to the ringed planet Saturn and its icy moons. The Cassini spacecraft and ESA Huygens were launched on a Titan IVB/Centaur on 15 October 1997. See http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2004/06/Wide_View_of_Launch