Posted on 12/31/2004 11:25:50 AM PST by KevinDavis
As U.S. President George W. Bush prepared to step onto the stage at NASA headquarters Jan. 14 to issue a call for returning to the Moon and venturing on to Mars, a robotic rover dubbed Spirit was already preparing to roll off its landing platform onto the surface of the red planet.
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