MARS PLAN DROPPED
U.S. Changes Tactics (N .Z .P .A .-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Plans to fire a Voyager spacecraft towards Mars in 1969 and land a life detection capsule there in 1971 have been abandoned, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced yesterday. Instead the United States would try to put two scientific spacecraft in orbit around Mars with one launch in 1971, then make an attempt at landing on the planet in 1973, N.A.S.A. said. It said the main factor in the plan changes was the finding by Mariner IV, which flew past Mars last July 14, that the Martian atmosphere was thinner than first thought, ruling out a parachute landing of an instrument capsule and calling for a soft landing with heavy braking rockets.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30884, 18 October 1965, Page 20
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