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This photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Perseverance landed on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA’s new Mars rover hits dusty red road, 1st trip 21 feet

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This photo provided by NASA shows US astronaut Kate Rubins outside the International Space Station during a space walk on Friday, March 5, 2021. Rubins and Japan's Soichi Noguchi floated outside to complete unfinished work from Sunday's spacewalk. More mounting brackets and struts need to be installed for new and improved solar panels due to arrive in June. (NASA via AP)

Spacewalkers finish solar panel prep for station power boost

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

President Joe Biden congratulates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars 2020 Perseverance team for successfully landing on Mars during a virtual call in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden lauds NASA team for giving US ‘dose of confidence’

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

In this image taken from NASA video, NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, top, and Victor Glover work outside the International Space Station Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Thespacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year. (NASA via AP)

Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new solar wings

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Indiana-made alloy helped Mars rover nail red planet landing

By CARSON GERBER - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, photo provided by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital shows Hayley Arceneaux at the hospital in Memphis, Tenn. On Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, the hospital announced that the 29-year-old physician assistant — a former patient hired the previous spring — will launch later this year alongside a billionaire who’s using his purchased spaceflight as a charitable fundraiser. (Mike Brown/American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital via AP)

Bone cancer survivor to join billionaire on SpaceX flight

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)

EDITORIAL: What NASA’s Mars rover says about America

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This combination of images from video made available by NASA shows steps in the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

$Illustration on space security by Linas Garsys\The Washington Times$

SpaceX and the importance of security in the new space race

By Jonathan H. Ward

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)

Alabama student celebrates connection to Mars rover landing

By MARK HUGHES COBB and The Tuscaloosa News - Associated Press

Northup Grumman's Antares rocket lifts off the launch pad at NASA's Wallops Island flight facility in Wallops Island, Va., Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. The rocket is delivering cargo to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Space station launch honors ‘Hidden Figures’ mathematician

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)

Mars landing team ‘awestruck’ by photo of descending rover

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this illustration made available by NASA, the Perseverance rover casts off its spacecraft's cruise stage, minutes before entering the Martian atmosphere. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Perseverance's $3 billion mission is the first leg in a U.S.-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Millie Hughes-Fulford, trailblazing astronaut, dies at 75

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Naval Academy grads hope to walk on the moon with NASA team

By KATHERINE FOMINYKH and The Capital Gazette - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, July 20, 2020 file photo, men watch the launch of the &quot;Amal&quot; or &quot;Hope&quot; space probe at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The orbiter is scheduled to reach Mars on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. NASA’s rover will arrive on the scene a week later, on Feb. 18, to collect rocks for return to Earth _ a key step in determining whether life ever existed at Mars. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1971, file photo, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. conducts an experiment near a lunar crater using an instrument from a two-wheeled cart carrying various test tools. Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. and his crew brought back 42 kilograms of moon rocks. Left behind were two golf balls that Shepard, who later described the moon's surface as “one big sand trap,” hit with a makeshift 6-iron to become a footnote in history. (NASA via AP, File)

Out of this world: Shepard put golf on moon 50 years ago

By DOUG FERGUSON - Associated Press

NASA engineer Roland Norris onboard his sailboat Captiva docked in Merritt Island, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2021, where he wrote a book about his career. He says the chapter about the Challenger astronauts was the hardest to write. It took him seven years to finish his nearly 200 page memoir “My Path to a Career in Aerospace and an Out of This World Job with NASA.” (Rachael Joy/Florida Today via AP)

For NASA engineer, writing about Challenger tragedy was hard

By RACHAEL JOY and Florida Today - Associated Press

In this image taken from NASA video, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins works outside the International Space Station’s European lab on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Hopkins and Victor Glover went spacewalking Wednesday to install a high-speed data link outside the International Space Station’s European lab and connect cables for an experiment platform awaiting activation for almost a year. (NASA via AP)

Cable trouble dogs spacewalkers in European lab upgrades

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press