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Astronautics AP: A sixth-grader from Kansas who won a contest to name NASA's next rover to Mars visited California to meet the project engineers and scientists and to sign her name on the robot. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma said Monday she never dreamed she would win. The youngster from Sunflower Elementary in Lenexa, Kansas, chose the name "Curiosity" for the Mars Science Laboratory because she says that's what space exploration is all about. The essay contest was sponsored by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, which signed an agreement with NASA and paid for Clara and her family to visit Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Curiosity is under construction at JPL. It was supposed to launch in the fall, but technical difficulties and budget woes pushed the launch back two years to 2011. - courtesy of Associated Press
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