In the final landing phase, the spacecraft will hover on its jets about 65 feet above the surface and unreel the rover on three Kevlar cables in what NASA engineers call a "sky crane, " lowering it to the ground at less than two miles per hour.

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Similar "goodwill moon rocks" from the final lunar landing, Apollo 17, which flew 40 years ago this month, were also gifted.

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The Northern Irishman could also miss Sunday's final after landing awkwardly and appearing to jar his knee in the game against the the Dutch league leaders.

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Bailey, the former GM of the U.S. national team from 2007-11, says the NWSL is in the final stages of landing a major apparel sponsor to help promote the league.

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Sale remained in control as the match approached the final quarter, with Hodgson landing another penalty.

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O'Gara eventually found his range in the final minute of the first half, landing a penalty to give his side the lead at the interval.

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The U.S. perfect it with putting a man on the man, then with a series of modern high tech space shuttle missions and Mars ROVERS. But now, the final frontier captains are more likely to be Russians, with their hopes for a human Mars landing someday, or Chinese, with a new China space station due within the next 8 years.

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Murray has stuttered a little since landing his first major title at Flushing Meadows, wasting five match points before losing in the Shanghai Masters final to Serbian Novak Djokovic.

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