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NASA's new Mars rover "Perseverance" is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches Perseverance, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches Perseverance, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover.

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    1. I hope so too. It was my dream when I was a kid in the 70s to live and work in space. Somehow we just didn’t get off the ground, but now it seems the fervor is back on with a passion and I wish your generation the very best in your endeavors in space exploration. Good Luck and Gods speed!!

    2. @Matt Kelly In space, there is only one bathroom,,,,, and no one can hear you scream when you drop a deuce.

  1. Given the way this year has gone so far, I wouldn’t be surprised if this results in a gate being opened to hell on the surface.

    1. @Tommy Jones After literally just now reading the description of that book it sounds like a great sci-fi instead of a conspiracy theory.

    2. You said something that the Bible describes. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night: in the which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10). This describes a worldwide collapse with volcanos and earthquakes everywhere. But it’s not fire of destruction. It’s fire of purification as gold or silver are melted to remove impurities. Then the precious metals can be made into fine jewelry. That will be the “third” earth, so to speak. The “first” was washed away by water. We here on the “second” earth look forward to a purified earth where a renewed humanity can start over.

    3. @Ernest Imken Actually I was describing the game Doom. I always assumed the passage you mention was describing the sun going super nova, or something even more devastating like vacuum decay. While volcanoes can be pretty destructive, I don’t think they cause the elements to melt away and the heavens to pass.

    4. As sure as we are standing on the earth today, the earth’s meltdown will happen, but there will be millions who escape.(1 Thessalonians 4:14-18)

  2. 8:04
    Someone says “Ow.”
    Then whispers occur.
    Anyone got the audio to hear it on their device?

  3. I’d like to see a launch like this filmed from some form of eyes in the skies – satellite or space station – before I pass away…

  4. GOD BLESS THIS
    “MARS 2020
    PERSEVERANCE MISSION” 🙏
    WE ARE WITH YOU IN PRAYERS
    FOR A GREATER SCIENCE SUCCESSFULL PROCESS &
    EVERY BODY WORKED SO HARD FOR
    “PLANET MARS
    DISCOVERY” 🙏
    THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING
    THE “COUNT DOWN”
    WITH US SO VERY EXCITING 💓
    WE CONTINUE WITH PASSION
    DEVOTION
    PRAYERS
    GOSPELS WITH ELVIS FAN ARTIST 💓
    GOD BLESS YOU ALL GOD’S BLESSINGS FOR AMERICA 🙏
    GOD BLESS “THE FACE
    OF THE EARTH”🙏
    GOD BLESS
    “PLANET MARS”🙏
    GOD BLESS THE
    “WHOLE WORLD”
    🌏🌎🌍

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