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Brian Babin: “Our nation once again experienced a collective '7 minutes of terror' as the Perseverance rover descended to the Martian…”

On the recordApril 28, 2021
Our nation once again experienced a collective '7 minutes of terror' as the Perseverance rover descended to the Martian surface.
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Brian Babin
Republican · Texas

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Babin describes the tense moment of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars.

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