Mars 2020 Rover Name Announcement Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shakes hands with Alex Mather, the student whose submission, Perseverance, was chosen as the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name was made by Zurbuchen following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every state and territory. Perseverance is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prep
Mars 2020 Rover Name Announcement Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shakes hands with Alex Mather, the student whose submission, Perseverance, was chosen as the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name was made by Zurbuchen following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every state and territory. Perseverance is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer.
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