[FPSPACE] Voyager (to Mars?)

[Paolo Ulivi]

David, Larry
I have a cool artist view of the Voyager stack on my webesite at 
http://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/coll-voyager.jpg
see also this page http://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/coll.html for other 
pictures and artwork
and if you could scan your Mars rover picture, I would love to see it!
Paolo


DSFPortree at aol.com wrote:

>Larry:
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>Voyager was a cool program that went through a lot of evolution before it 
>died, then was reborn as Viking and moved to Langley. First mooted in 1960, it 
>was JPL's earliest bid to do a major planetary mission outside the "robots must 
>be precursors to piloted missions" paradigm. Unfortunately, it got treated as 
>a precursor to piloted Mars missions, and got cancelled in August 1967, along 
>with plans for Apollo-based piloted Mars flybys with Voyager-based sample 
>returners. Three factors conspired against these advanced missions: the Apollo 1 
>fire, the expanding war in Indochina, and an astronomical federal budget 
>deficit of about $30 billion (!).
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>Viking was 90% Voyager. JPL's plans for post-Viking missions based on Viking 
>hardware were virtually identical to JPL's plans for advanced Voyager 
>missions. If JPL of the 1960s had had it's way, we'd have seen progressively more 
>sophisticated Voyagers throughout the 1970s. If JPL of the 1970s had had its way, 
>we'd have seen progressively more sophisticated Vikings throughout the 1980s, 
>including rovers and sample returns.
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>Incidentally, Voyager was also intended for Venus exploration, though its 
>Mars mission got the most attention.
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>I have a cool picture, taken just five miles from where I sit, of a multi-cab 
>Voyager Mars rover with big balloon tires doing an analog test on the rugged 
>Bonito Lava Flow in Sunset Crater National Monument. I haven't been able to 
>track down anything on when this test occurred - must've been around 1966.
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>David
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>feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling 
>around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're 
>falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little 
>world, and if we let go..." - The Ninth Doctor
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