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Russian Progress cargo capsule arrives at launch pad
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Astronauts replace failed computer in short spacewalk
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NASA’s Perseverance rover leaves Earth bound for Mars
Persevering through a global pandemic, a last-minute earthquake, and the trials of a rocket launch, NASA’s next Mars rover — named Perseverance — took off from Cape Canaveral Thursday on a nearly seven-month journey to the Red Planet with sophisticated science instruments, technology to collect samples for to Earth, and the first interplanetary helicopter that could produce a “Wright Brothers moment” on another world.