NASA successfully launches first Mars Exploration Rover

NASA successfully launched the first of its twin Mars Exploration Rover (MER) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 1:58 p.m. EDT June 10, marking the agency's first attempt to land on the red planet since its ill-fated Mars Polar Lander mission in 1999. The spacecraft successfully separated from...

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