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Hope Heads For A Rendezvous With Mars – WJSU
It's taken seven months, and more than 300 million miles to get there, but Hope is on track to arrive at Mars tomorrow. It's the first ever
It’s taken seven months, and more than 300 million miles to get there, but Hope is on track to arrive at Mars tomorrow.
It’s the first ever interplanetary mission from the United Arab Emirates and “Hope” is the name of the SUV-sized spacecraft that is scheduled to orbit Mars and study the Martian atmosphere.
“Excited, proud but also stressed, worried,” is how Omran Sharaf, Emirates Mars Mission project director, described his feeling a few weeks before arrival day.
He was also feeling confident….
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