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...Mars Global Surveyor, which NASA will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price...
...will meet in Washington to discuss a joint 2001 Mars mission that may make use of the shelved Russian rover. NASA itself has even more ambitious plans. With $100 million a year in Mars money promised by Congress, the space agency hopes to launch a pair of flights like Surveyor and Pathfinder every two years until...
BORN: May 27, 1955, Fort Lauderdale EDUCATION: Atlantic High School, diploma, 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Darlene Nimey; two children RELIGION: Orthodox Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Farmer; cattle rancher; construction surveyor POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Boynton Beach mayor, 1992 ADDRESS: 2710 North Seacrest Boulevard, Delray Beach...
...deux around the sun brings the two planets close enough to make the trip practical. The next window opens this fall, and NASA intends to take advantage of it. Between Nov. 6 and Dec. 31, the space agency will launch two missions to Mars. The first, the Mars Global Surveyor, is an orbiter that will arrive in September 1997 and spend at least four months circling the planet and mapping its geology and climate. Despite its small size (10 ft. tall; 2,300 lbs.), the spacecraft carries quite an instrument load, including magnetometers to measure magnetic fields, a laser altimeter...
...month or so after Global Surveyor is launched, a sister ship, the Mars Pathfinder, will follow it into space. Like NASA's unmanned Viking ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling...