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Deets: Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event, Explore JPL. Visitors will get the chance to visit JPL’s most iconic facilities and explore four thematic areas: Missions That Changed the World, Moon to Mars, In Flight, and Makerspace.

Among other highlights, Explore JPL guests will get to:

• Visit JPL’s legendary Space Flight Operations Facility, a National Historic Landmark where engineers send commands and receive data from spacecraft billions of miles away.

• Discover the Spacecraft Assembly Facility and JPL Machine Shop, where precision spacecraft components are crafted.

• See the latest cutting-edge innovations in robotics research, from autonomous lunar rovers to search-and-rescue robots.

• Get up close with full-scale models of the Perseverance Mars rover, Voyager, and Galileo.

• Step inside the Microdevices Laboratory to see how miniature technologies developed there are shaping the future of space exploration and Earth science.

Hint for the Average Socialite: Free tickets will be released Saturday, August 29 at 9AM PST. Tickets are expected to sell out quickly.

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