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United Press International | Wed, May 27
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UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | Enlarge PASADENA, Calif., May 27 (UPI) -- The US space agency says its new Mars rover finally has a name thanks to 12-year-old Clara Ma from a Lenexa, Kan., elementary school. The new National Aeronautics and Space ...
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(in Winning Student in Contest to Name Mars Rover)
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Clara Ma, 12, of Lenexa, Kans., submitted an essay that won a national contest for naming the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover has been named Curiosity, as this sixth-grader from Sunflower Elementary School proposed in the ...
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(in Sixth Grader Names nasa's Mars Science Lab Rover)
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AP A sixth grader has won a nationwide contest that attracted more than 9000 student entries. Clara Ma of Lenexa, Kansas has named the next Mars Rover "Curiosity." Ma will get to sign her name directly to the rover as it is put together at the Jet ...
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