Latinos Persevering

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On today’s episode of Latino USA, we meet some of the Latinas and Latinos involved with the recent and historic mission to Mars. The Perseverance rover traveled almost 300 million miles to Mars and landed on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021 in hopes of finding traces of previous life on the planet.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides.
0:03.0	And on this new series, we're going to get to know the most powerful Mexican government
0:08.6	official ever to face trial in the US for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord, El
0:15.4	Chappo.
0:16.4	But this is not your regular narco story.
0:19.3	It's like true crime, myths, telenovela.
0:22.6	This is our new series, USA versus García Luna.
0:27.1	Find it whatever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org.
0:57.1	I'm Maria Inojosa.
1:07.1	Today we meet some of the Latinos working on the most recent and historic mission to
1:15.2	Mars.
1:24.2	About 45 years since the first US spacecraft landed safely on Mars.
1:30.6	Since then there have been several other missions to the red planet, each one building
1:35.0	off of the other and getting us to where we are today.
1:39.4	Perseverance.
1:41.2	After the rover curiosity landed on Mars eight years ago, it confirmed the red planet
1:45.9	once could have supported life.
1:48.5	Perseverance will try to find definitive proof.
1:51.9	The rover left Earth last July and traveled almost 300 million miles across space to its
2:04.8	destination, the red planet.
2:07.7	And on today's episode, you're going to hear from some of the Latinos and Latinos whose
2:12.7	own perseverance made this mission possible.
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