After the cancellation of Voyager(Mars) in 1967 NASA started up a new series of studies to come up with a spacecraft for the 1973 launch opportunity.
This Martin-Marietta designed soft-lander of 1969 was intended to put the maximum payload weight on the surface of Mars using a mission profile...
1965 (Pre-Mariner 4 Atmosphere) design for a hard landing capsule designed to take 1 high resolution photograph of the surface of Mars and then transmit it back to Earth over a period of four days. The camera used would appear to be a distant ancestor of those eventually used on the Viking...
Kaman Moon Helicopter concept circa 1967 artist's impression found on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kaman-helicopter-use-moon-planets-artist-concept-8x10-1965-/370580580978?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item564852ea72
Concerned about the cost of Viking 1 & 2, NASA looked at lower cost alternatives for the 1977 & 1979 Mars launch opportunities . One of the proposed missions was to use a modified version of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter to carry six RTG powered penetrators to Mars.
Once the spacecraft entered...
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Links, concept artwork, and models of the Apollo Applications Program (AAP) probe to Mars program named Voyager from the 1960s. Not to be confused with the later Voyager program that went to the outer planets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program_(Mars)...
Dear forum members,
do anybody know what is the experimental "flying disc" shown at minutes 19:18-19:22 of this video by Jane's journalist Nick Cook, please?
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-834605691449249469
I have made 3 stills from the video:
- the disc is dropped:
- two...
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