PHOTOS: Lockheed Martin employees celebrate Mars rover successful landing
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David Buecher, program manager, celebrates the successful landing of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Buecher designed the separation hardware for the heat shield for the Mars 2020 mission and the program manager for the Mars Helicopter deployment system. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Dave Scholz, Mars 2020 aeroshell principal engineer, views a photo of Mars on a wall, to point out where the location of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be landing, at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Engineers watch the landing of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Dave Scholz, Mars 2020 aeroshell principal engineer, watches the landing of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Lockheed engineers built the “aeroshell” in Colorado that carried the rover safely through the Martian atmosphere. The Perseverance rover that landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater on Thursday. The Lockheed team that built the aeroshell in Colorado was about 18 engineers large and it began work with pre-ordering materials as far back as 2015. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Engineer Sierra Gonzales watches the landing of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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David Buecher, program manager, celebrates the successful landing of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Buecher designed the separation hardware for the heat shield for the Mars 2020 mission and the program manager for the Mars Helicopter deployment system. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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David Buecher, program manager, views a photo of Mars during NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing being broadcasted live by NASA TV at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Campus in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Buecher designed the separation hardware for the heat shield for the Mars 2020 mission and the program manager for the Mars Helicopter deployment system. The Perseverance rover landed at the site of an ancient river delta in a lake that once filled Jezero Crater. The mission is to seek signs of ancient life, collect and store soil and rock samples. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
