Mars 2020 Rover Name Announcement

Amazon Senior Sales Manager, Jamie Baker, left, awards a large boarding pass to Alex Mather, the student whose submission, Perseverance, was chosen as the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, to get him and his family to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch of the rover, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name was made by Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. The rover is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Amazon Senior Sales Manager, Jamie Baker, left, awards a large boarding pass to Alex Mather, the student whose submission, Perseverance, was chosen as the official name of the Mars 2020 rover, to get him and his family to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch of the rover, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The final selection of the new name was made by Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. The rover is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

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