Mars 2020 launch
The Atlas 5 carrying Mars 2020 lifts off from Cape Canaveral July 30.

NASA’s most sophisticated Mars rover yet is on its way to the red planet after a successful launch July 30.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...