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May 1, 2014 · Aboard the space shuttle were Commander David M. Walker, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and Mission Specialists Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee, and more than 260,000 pounds of cargo, including the primary payload, the 7,604-pound Magellan spacecraft.
May 2, 2024 · During its 14 years orbiting Venus between 1978 and 1992, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, managed by the NASA Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, among other observations used its radar to map approximately 90% of Venus at a resolution of about 10 kilometers.
Launch Complex 39 was renovated for the Space Shuttle program, with most of the modifications located at Launch Pads 39A and 39B. A fixed service structure was built on both launch pads, which wrapped around the Space Shuttle during launch preparations and rolled back on hinges as the launch neared.
Aug 10, 2020 · Had this mission been realized in its original concept, it would have been launched by the Space Shuttle in December 1984, reaching Venus in May 1985 and going on to map around 50 percent of the surface over six months of orbital operations.
Apr 11, 2011 · A final tally of the space shuttle program's lifetime costs puts the price tag at $1.5 billion per flight, a new analysis shows. The analysis reveals that, as of the end of 2010, the space...
Magellan's global radar map currently remains as the most detailed Venus map in existence, although the upcoming NASA VERITAS and Roskosmos Venera-D probes will carry a radar that can achieve a much higher resolution compared to the radar used by Magellan. Both probes are expected to launch in 2029.
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Thus, the $551 million mission (see Table 2-1) and the spacecraft that will soon arrive at Venus are much different than NASA had planned a decade earlier, yet the basic scientific mapping objectives remain unchanged.
