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Alabama High School student names helicopter from Mars

[ad_1] Washington DC .: Vaneeza Rupani, a student at Albama High School, named the spacecraft that will attempt NASA’s first powered flight on another planet. Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt a powered flight on another planet, NASA’s Mars Helicopter has officially received a new name: Wit. Vaneeza …

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Alabama student names NASA’s first Mars helicopter

[ad_1] An Alabama high school student named NASA’s first Mars helicopter to be deployed to the Red Planet later this summer. The mill, named after Vaneeza Rupani, was selected for the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) solar-powered helicopter, NASA said in a statement Wednesday. The name coined by the junior at the Tuscaloosa …

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High school student names NASA’s Mars helicopter

[ad_1] An American high school student named the first helicopter that was sent to Mars. Wit was the name chosen by the US space agency NASA in a competition that involved thousands of students across the United States. The name was suggested by Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County …

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NASA names companies to develop human landers for lunar missions

[ad_1] The Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft takes off from NASA’s Wallops flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, United States, on February 15, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen / Xinhua) “With these contractual awards, the United States is moving forward with the final step necessary to land astronauts …

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