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Perseverance mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment delivered to Kennedy Space Center is unloaded from a NASA Wallops C-130.

May 21, 2020

Some of the nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of Perseverance mission flight hardware, test gear and equipment delivered to Kennedy Space Center on May 11, 2020, is unloaded from a NASA Wallops C-130.

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