NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket that can launch s

On February 7th, NASA announced that it had awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle, or MAV, which will take off from Mars someday to bring samples of dirt back to Earth.

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