Founder and CEO of Future Engineers, Deanne Bell, speaks to the audience at an event to announce 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, Perseverance, was made by NASA’s Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas 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. The rover is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this
Founder and CEO of Future Engineers, Deanne Bell, speaks to the audience at an event to announce 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, Perseverance, was made by NASA’s Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas 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. The rover is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer.
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