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‘Super Exciting’: Colorado Scientists That Helped Perseverance Rover Mission Celebrate Mars Landing
Perseverance is the latest Mars mission that continues a long history of discovery from Lockheed Martin's facilities in Colorado.
February 18, 2021
LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) — The team at Lockheed Martin responsible for the aeroshell protecting the Mars 2020 rover celebrated its entry and landing on the surface of the red planet Thursday. They were watching along virtually with their colleagues at NASA.
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Perseverance is the latest Mars mission that continues a long history of discovery from the company’s facilities in Colorado.
“It is definitely the culmination of a lot of work, a lot of design,” said David Buecher, the program manager for this mission at Lockheed Martin. “It takes this whole team to support those roles and this is the culmination of all that hard work.”
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