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i'm nasa kennedy's christie irastorza

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and i'm taking you

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inside ksc anticipation is building

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as nasa's next mission to the red planet

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mars 2020

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is ramping up for launch the payload

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ferry containing the mars perseverance

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rover

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and ingenuity helicopter was lifted up

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into the vertical integration facility

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at space launch complex 41 on cape

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canaveral

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air force station then it was lowered

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down and attached to the united launch

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alliance atlas 5

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rocket preparations continue at the pad

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to prepare the rocket for launch

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the rover is scheduled to lift off

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aboard the atlas 5 rocket on july 30

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and reach mars on february 18 2021

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the rover 7 instruments will search the

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red planet for signs

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of habitable conditions and past

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microbial life

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nasa's launch services programs based at

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kennedy

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is managing the launch solid rocket

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booster segments for nasa's

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space launch system rocket recently

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arrived at kennedy space center

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and were uploaded at the rotation

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processing

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and search facility they were checked

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out and then lifted into position so

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that workers could begin the task

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of joining an aft booster segment to a

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left

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half booster cone manufactured by

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northrom grumman in utah

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the 177 foot tall twin boosters provide

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more than 75 of the total sls

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thrust at launch the sls rocket will

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launch

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nasa's orion spacecraft and send it to

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flight around the moon for artemis 1

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a mission to test it too as an

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integrated system

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under the artemis program nasa will land

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the first woman and the next man on the

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