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... Names = Venus Radar Mapper, 19969 Experiments = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do?spacecraft=Magellan Here Nominal Power = 1029.0W Additional Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftOrbit.do ... Data Collection = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Magellan Here Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle-Inertial Upper Stage Magellan was a unique mission, the first dedicated U.S. mission to ...

... , what do you want, the flight deck, ascent or entry?” because we were doing the Magellan deploy so we weren’t in the flight crew. He wanted to fly upstairs. There ... ’s obvious because it was the first deployment of a spacecraft out of the Shuttle. Magellan did great work, great work, and got me interested in unmanned spacecraft. '''Wright:''' What would ... following the results of your experiments that you ran or following the results of the Magellan flight after you launched that? '''Cleave:''' Yes. Yes. For both of them. In fact, I ...

... satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies. We took thousands of images and assembled them into ... . Immler presented a 160-megapixel mosaic image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and a 57-megapixel mosaic image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the 222nd American Astronomical Society meeting ...

... -08-17.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF) NASA scientists regained contact with Magellan after a 14-hour loss. The spacecraft went into a safe mode, in which it ... the problem in Magellan 's program. Scientists were pleased, however, with the first set of pictures taken during Magellan 's test run over the planet. They, however, cautioned that Magellan 's mission to ...

... 5/91; USA Today, Apr 5/91; UPI, Apr 5/91; AP, Apr 5/91) Magellan project manager Tony Spear at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Pasadena, California, announced that the ... mapped 84 per-cent by May 15. The mission was to be extended to allow Magellan to map the remaining 14 percent, including the south pole. Toward the latter part of its mission it will also acquire gravity data. Magellan 's findings, as described in Science magazine, indicated Venus was volcanic and geologically active. (NASA ...

... Magellan probe. Magellan , deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989, has mapped about 97 percent of the Venusian surface with its remote sensing cameras. An overview of the Magellan program called " Magellan at ...

... for this day. (1MB PDF) NASA ground controllers were to send final commands to the Magellan space probe on October 7 to send it crashing to its death in the atmosphere ... 12, NASA announced that Magellan was expected to bum up within two days. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, declared Magellan dead on October 12. However, Magellan lasted long enough to ...

... information about the formation of stars and galaxies. Collectively known as the Magellanic Clouds (MC), the LMC and the Small Magellanic Clouds (SMC) are galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. Because of ... . '' JAXA , “The Quest To Unravel the Mysteries of Galaxy Formation: Infrared Images of the Large Magellanic Cloud,” press release, 1 November 2006, http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2006/11/20061101_akari ...

... ? '''Kelly:''' I read in one of your books that you were called "Magellan" because of your unclear . '''Collins:''' Oh, Magellan. I forgot about that. Yes. Oh, yes. Well, see, there's so ... . These navigational engineers would say things like, "My God, do you realize you're like Magellan, out of sight of land for the first time in history You're going to ... , John Young, who has a very wry sense of humor, started referring to me as Magellan because of that. Laughter '''Kelly:''' I think that's an interesting story. '''Collins:''' Yes. '''Kelly ...

... the Space Shuttle in April 1988 and arrival at Venus in July 1989, was renamed Magellan , The Magellan spacecraft, attached to a Centaur-G upper stage, would map the entire surface of ... character of its surface and to investigate the Martian climate, both present and past. The Magellan and Mars Observer projects were managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for ...

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