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I'm NASA Kennedy's Allyson pig asleep

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and I'm outside KSC taking you inside

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inside Kennedy Space Center's payload

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hazardous servicing facility

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preparations continued this week for the

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Mars 2020 launch of the perseverance

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rover United Launch Alliance or you la

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technicians use ground handling

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equipment to manually push the two

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halves of the 17 foot diameter payload

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bearings together for connection this

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payload fairing protects the spacecraft

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carrying perseverance atop the Atlas 5

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rocket during the ascent through Earth's

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atmosphere NASA and ula are targeting

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July 20th 2020 at 9:15 a.m. Eastern for

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the launch the Atlas 5 rocket is

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scheduled to liftoff from Space Launch

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Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force

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Station there's a two-hour launch window

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perseverance is slated to arrive at the

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Red Planet on February 18th 2021

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once there the rover was searched for

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signs of past microbial life

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NASA's launch service program based at

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Kennedy is managing launch twin boosters

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for NASA's Space Launch System or SLS

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rocket that will power

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arrived at Kennedy the boosters each one

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North and Grumman manufacturing facility

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in Utah and are now at candy's rotation

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processing and surge facility the

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cross-country journey was an important

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milestone towards the first launch of

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NASA's Artemis program the boosters will

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remain inside this processing facility

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until it's time to move them to the

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Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking

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on the mobile launcher NASA is working

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to land the first woman and the next man

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on the moon by 2020 for the first in a

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series of increasingly complex missions

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are missed one will test the Orion

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spacecraft and SLS as an integrated

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system ahead of crewed missions to the

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moon the agency is working towards an

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Artemis one launch date in 2021 for more

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inside KSC

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