Sunday, August 5, 2012

USA - Voice of America: NASA: Confident, Anxious Ahead of Mars Rover Landing

USA - Voice of America
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NASA: Confident, Anxious Ahead of Mars Rover Landing
Aug 5th 2012, 23:29

The Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission. The U.S. space agency is preparing for the rover to land on the Red Planet on Monday [August 6 at 5:31 UTC]. Curiosity has traveled some 566 million kilometers since it was launched in November. But the most harrowing part of the journey to Mars is still ahead.  NASA officials told reporters at a pre-landing news conference on Sunday that the spacecraft was functioning properly ...

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