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Final attempts to contact the Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 lander on Mars failed, and JPL spokesman said that they would try no more " ... while its robot laboratory sampled and photographed the planet's surface. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 's lander and Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 's orbiter went mute in April 1980. The $500-million ...

At a ceremony today in Washington, D.C., NASA transferred owner-ship of Viking spacecraft Viking Lander 1, which was on the planet Mars, to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air ... also included loan of the official Viking spacecraft Viking Lander plaque, which renamed the lander the Thomas A. Mutch Memorial Station in memory of the Viking spacecraft Viking landing imaging team leader and NASA ...

... at ARC's Water on Mars Workshop, that “The pictures taken by the two Viking spacecraft Viking spacecraft in orbit around Mars tell us that Mars had as much water in geologic ... did.” Carr said the 20,000 close-up pictures taken since 1976 by the two Viking spacecraft Viking spacecraft revealed canyons that were deeper, wider, and longer than the Grand Canyon and ... global Martian ocean tens of hundreds of meters deep.” Carr pointed out that the Viking spacecraft Viking photos also suggested that water was below the surface at latitudes near the Martian equator ...

... Sun was shining from the opposite direction than in the images recorded by the Viking spacecraft Viking probe. Viking spacecraft Viking 's images had revealed a surface formation in the hilly desert area, Cydonia ...

... of Mars. NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin delivered a keynote address, “Continuing the Quest~ Celebrating Viking and Looking to the Future of Mars Exploration,” at the National Geographic Society’s Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington, DC. Viking 1 Lander had remained on Mars for six years, gathering images and data invaluable for ...

... W. H. Cowley 65 - Reviews 72 - Discovering Jupiter – 3 Staff of NASA 73 - Behind the Viking Scene David Baker 75 - Satellite Digest – 101 Robert D. Christy 78 - Correspondence 79 - '''Volume 19 ... - First Shuttle Base 218 - X-15: First Wings into Space Curtis Peebles 228 - Behind the Viking Scene – 5 David Baker 232 - Satellite Digest – 105 Robert D. Christy 236 - Correspondence 237 - '''Volume ...

... SHADOW OF RUSSIAN MISSILES Interavia, Vol. 8 1953 M. W. Rosen , DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION (VIKING), The Viking Rocket Story 1955, p. 50 E. G. Ewing, LANDING OF SPACE CRAFT, The Artificial Satellite ... . 112, 1953 R. Lea, STRUCTURAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS. FOR A HIGH ALTITUDE SOUNDING ROCKET OF THE VIKING TYPE, ARS Preprint Vol. 115A, 1953 K.R. Stehling & Missert, HIGH ALTITUDE LAUNCHING OF A ...

... As Viking Sees It” and “The Search For Life” articles appear in National Geographic Magazine During January: ... that James S. Martin, Jr., manager of the Viking spacecraft Viking project, would receive the Goddard award for "brilliant leadership of the Viking spacecraft Viking project to land an instrumented, automated spacecraft on the ...

... led the nationwide team of 750 engineers, scientists, and technicians that had developed the Viking 1 and Viking 2 spacecraft. The two craft had launched in 1975 and landed on Mars a year later, making Viking the first mission to successfully soft-land on the surface of another planet. Martin had ... to leave retirement to lead its effort to restructure its Mars Exploration Program. (NASA, “Mars Viking Leader, James S. Martin Jr. Dies,” news release 02-72, 18 April 2002.) March 2002 ...

... Thursday, May 20. The Opportunity rover will surpass the duration record set by NASA's Viking 1 Lander of six years and 116 days operating on the surface of Mars. The ... least sunshine at their locations, was Wednesday, May 12. Opportunity, and likely Spirit, surpassing the Viking Lander 1 longevity record is truly remarkable, considering these rovers were designed for only a ... . 13, 1982, more than two years longer than its twin lander or either of the Viking orbiters. The record for longest working lifetime by a spacecraft at Mars belongs to a ...

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