The NASA Mars Exploration Program
The prime objective of the program became returning multiple samples to earth, the first in 2008, and within the augmented budget.
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Engineering topics
Haynes, N.
Publications and source records attributed to Haynes, N..
Mars Pathfinder's Lessons Learned: From the Mars Pathfinder Manager's Perspective: The Future Road
In 1992, Dr. Wes Huntress challenged the JPL staff to undertake the first of NASA's new Discovery Program missions; Pathfinder.
JPL NASA's Discovery Program Pathfinder landing sy↗
Mars Together 2001: Joint US-Russian Team
While the US and USSR have collaborated in human space flight and Earth application missions, this is the first time in the cultural relations between our two countries that American and Russian specialists have been authorized to work together on a joint space science mission. A study was commissioned to investigate the possibility of a combined US/Russian mission in the 2001 opportunity. A basic option for a proposed mission (abbreviated as MT 2001) was adopted. This option is described.
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Reengineering Deep Space Network Operations
Eight additional antennas are being added to NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) at the same time that the budget is being decreased. Therefore, the DSN is reengineering its processes to operate more efficiently.
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