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krispos42

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7. My company makes parts for JPL

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #3)

Tue May 11, 2021, 05:22 PM

May 2021

We have parts on both Curiosity and Perseverance!

And their parts are generally complex and with tight tolerances. We bitch about it at work, but we can't argue with either the results or the money.

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