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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Phoenix Mars Lander, the product of scientists at the University of Arizona, has emerged from its cocoon at Florida's Kennedy Space Center following a flight from Colorado, where it was built.
The spacecraft was flown to the Shuttle Landing Facility by a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane.
Workers used a huge crane on Tuesday to remove the top and sides of a steel container that encased the lander during the trip, said Gary Napier, spokesman with Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Littleton, Colo., Space Systems facility.
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