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... , two-engine jetliner, Delivery would be in 1967. ''(NYT, 5/21/65)'' Secrets unearthed by MARINER II and just made public were reported by Frank Macomber in the San Diego Union: "Venus ... smog, boiling up to at least 60 miles from the planet's surface," Macomber said MARINER II was regarded as one of the most successful of U.S. spacecraft. ''(Copley News Serv ... a broad technological base to meet the even greater challenges of the future." ''(Text)'' NASA MARINER IV was 85 million miles from earth and traveling faster than 48,000 mph, NASA ...

... by tracking stations at Santiago, Johannesburg, and Woomera, indicating the beacon spontaneously turned itself on. MARINER II would orbit the sun every 345.9 days, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL scientists announced. The ... .S.R. Astronomical Institute, as saying: "We learn today that America's space vehicle, the Mariner II, has passed quite close to Venus. The successful launching and the reception of radio signals ...

... and Astronautics’ Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications: “It is important to note that the MARINER IV photographs do not determine whether life exists on Mars. Even before the flight of ... forms. . . . “We propose to continue the exploration of Venus and Mars begun so well with Mariners II and IV, respectively, by utilizing for the 1967 Venus opportunity an appropriate modification of the ...

... ; no telemetric data were received in final moments before impact. Announcement said companion spacecraft VENUS II, launched Nov. 12, 1965, had passed within 14,900 mi. of Venus Feb. 27, and ... . Man’s closest previous contact with Venus had occurred Dec. 14, 1962, when NASA’s MARINER II (launched Aug. 27, 1962) had passed 21,648 mi. from its surface and had relayed ... /36)’’ The Feb. 28 deaths of Astronauts Elliot M. See , Jr., and Charles A. Bassett II received editorial comment. Washington Evening Star: “Yesterday’s tragedy is all the more shocking in ...

... not determined. ''(NASA EXPLORER XIV Program. Rpt. No. 4; NASA Release 63-6)'' NASA announced MARINER II Venus probe had been so successful that repeat flight scheduled for 1964 had been canceled ... projects as sending probe toward Mars in 1964 and later flight to Venus with advanced Mariner probe in 1965. ''(NASA Release 63-3 ; JPL Release)'' Dr. Robert C. Seamans , NASA Associate ...

... comparative planetary effort for example. Of our two launch attempts to date, the 447-pound Mariner II carried about 40 pounds of instruments near Venus and returned some data. We are rightfully ... , the comparison is a difficult one to make. We met with a great success in Mariner II . Not one of the Soviet craft attained its full objective. . . . "While neither country should be ...

... probe MARINER II passed the million-mile mark on its interplanetary journey. Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL scientists said that they would send signals Sept. 3 to alter the trajectory and swing MARINER II on ...

... MARINER II flight-path correction was postponed for at least 24 hours, because scientists could not determine ... the moon or the earth. Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL scientists received moon-reference indication from MARINER II ’s earth-sensing system and earth-reference indication from its high-gain antenna. If mid ...

Radio signals to Venus probe MARINER II , nearly 1.5 million mi. from earth, repositioned the craft and fired an onboard rocket ... and not the moon. Assuming that its corrected course was nominal, it was estimated that MARINER II would come within 9,000 mi. of Venus December 14, covering about 180,200,000 ...

... launching by the Delta rocket. MARINER II entered gravitational field of the sun; the Venus probe was 3,608,857 miles from earth. The velocity of MARINER II relative to the earth now stopped ...

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