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Meet the family-owned IL business with over 100 parts on NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance

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English - February 19, 2021 18:42 - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Kika Young’s paternal-grandparents started Forest City Gear with a hope to build specialty gears and components for complex projects, like the last four rovers NASA has sent to Mars. Today, Kika is the corporate manager for the company and she joins Steve Bertrand on Chicago’s Afternoon News to talk about her family’s role in exploring […]

Kika Young’s paternal-grandparents started Forest City Gear with a hope to build specialty gears and components for complex projects, like the last four rovers NASA has sent to Mars. Today, Kika is the corporate manager for the company and she joins Steve Bertrand on Chicago’s Afternoon News to talk about her family’s role in exploring the Red Planet and what it means to be a successful family-owned business in Illinois.

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