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NASA scientist Jim Garvin, right, talks with musician will.i.am, center, and astronaut Leland Melvin, left, next to a model of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.

Musician will.i.am at JPL

( Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times / August 5, 2012 )

NASA scientist Jim Garvin, right, talks with musician will.i.am, center, and astronaut Leland Melvin, left, next to a model of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.

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