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Michigan State: Meet the Spartan Who Helped NASA Go to Mars
March 05, 2021
EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 5 -- Michigan State University issued the following news release on March 4, 2021:

As a high school student, Terry Himes dreamed of exploring space. Today, the Spartan who graduated in 1975 from Michigan State University's College of Engineering is living his dream.

Himes is helping NASA communicate with its robotic spacefaring explorers.

"Just today, I was building the relay commands for Mars 2020, but also Curiosity . . .

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