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... than 20 years, the mission was considered a possible model for NASA. On May 3, Clementine 's rocket was to be fired to leave lunar orbit and head for a rendezvous ... August with a small asteroid, 1620 Geographos. Soon thereafter, Clementine might disappear from view; hence the name. Meanwhile, Eugene M. Shoemaker , Clementine 's chief scientist and a planetary geologist assigned by NASA ...

... in the shuttle cockpit. (NASA Release C94-n) The Defense Department said that robot spacecraft Clementine suffered a malfunction on May 7 that would prevent it from flying by and photographing the asteroid Geographos. However, Clementine was to continue to per-form a military mission that would test 23 "advanced technologies ...

... 6/94) NASA and the Defense Department were evaluating a lunar rover mission for a Clementine 1 follow-on flight that would continue the validation of advanced, lightweight technologies for antiballistic defense applications. Clementine 1 was a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) mission that tested new avionics and sensor ...

... for a series of privately financed robotic missions to the Moon by Michael Simon. 237 - CLEMENTINE MAPS THE MOON New results emerge about the surface of the Moon as lunar data ... first hand about the Hubble servicing mission STS-61. 308 - FASTER, CHEAPER CLEMENTINE The background, technology and implications of the Clementine mission by Darren L. Burnham. 309 - SECOND ASTRO-SPAS MISSION Ben ...

... Lunar Prospector mission? '''Carruthers:''' Not directly, in terms of actually participating in the science. The Clementine was actually built here at the Naval Research Laboratory, but it was done by the ... , what have we learned directly from Apollo about the Moon and in subsequent missions, particularly Clementine, Lunar Prospector, and other observations. Can you summarize more directly what we learned about the ...

... would be headed by Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona. Clementine, sponsored by the Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO), was scheduled to launch a small spacecraft ...

... (DoD) scheduled the launch of their joint project, the Deep Space Program Science Experiment, dubbed Clementine , on a Titan IIG rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California. This first U.S ... , especially the far side, had never been mapped completely nor explored with modem instruments. The Clementine Program could provide the overall picture that researchers have always wanted. (Orlando Sentinel, Jan 24 ...

... cost of maintaining Baikonur is being questioned. (UP, May 26/94) NASA announced that the Clementine mission, sponsored by the Department of Defense Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, had completed systematic mapping ... the lunar surface to produce the first global digital map of the Moon. NASA's Clementine science team mapped the topography and composition of major regions of the Moon in detail ...

... tonnes) of water. In a previous mission to the Moon to collect data, the spacecraft Clementine had found radar indications of water on the Moon's south pole. Paul D. Spudis , a member of the Clementine science team, remarked that Prospector's discovery was significant because "the presence of lunar water ...

... ; NY Times, Mar 3/94; P Inq, Mar 3/94; USA Today, Mar 3/94) Clementine spacecraft, launched January 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California, took just released high-resolution ...

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