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Mars Mission

NPR
Published April 5, 2001 at 10:00 PM MDT

Tomorrow NASA will launch its latest mission to Mars: a small spacecraft designed to study the red planet from its orbit. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on NASA's efforts to minimize the risk of failure.

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