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I'm not sure if I'm following you Scott. Were the car in space shots taken within the cargo bay with the doors open? Then the capsule with the car still inside powered on towards mars? Hard to separate the car and then send it on towards Mars. I guess it could have been on an extended arm.

Quite the attention grabbing move to have the car as the payload.
I'm not sure that they were confident enough about the reliability to take on the expensive cargo of scientific Packages in this first shot.

Neat to see America as a player in space developments again.

Cheers Richard