Compact Drilling and Sample System
The Compact Drilling and Sample System (CDSS) was developed to drill into terrestrial, cometary, and asteroid material in a sryogenic, vacuum environment in order to acquire subsurface samples.
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Gillis-Smith, G. R.
Publications and source records attributed to Gillis-Smith, G. R..
Mechanical Design of the Mars Pathfinder Mission
The Mars Pathfinder Mission was a great engineering achievement for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) which built the Pathfinder Spacecraft and the Sojourner Rover. The mechanical design of the mission hardware was critical to the success of the complex entry sequence and landed operations.
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