Viking 1 & 2 and Voyager spacecraft flight plan navigation decisions recordsand Apollo 11-17 lunar photography, 1969-1989.

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Viking 1 & 2 and Voyager spacecraft flight plan navigation decisions recordsand Apollo 11-17 lunar photography, 1969-1989.

Records from Donald L. Gray, Mission Design Section 312, contents of one binder (was refoldered in one expanding folder in the original order) titled OPS Viking, contains IOMs, handwritten notes, drawings, charts, graphs, and logs , both permanent and temporary records. Description from Archives Access and Processing Database: Includes log documentation from FPAG (Flight Path Analysis Group) and OPAG (Orbiter Performance Analysis Group), maneuvering quantification of time sequences and angles, trajectory data for mars orbit insertion and separation orbit, parametric tolerances, runlogs, and site acquisition computations. Also accompanied by 1 box of microfiche of Don Gray's Voyager navigation logs, MOPS (Maneuver Operations Program System) TCM (Trellis-Coded Modulation) search documentation, Voyager navigation memos 1977-1989, and fiche of lunar photography, Apollo Mission 11-17.

1.0 cubic ft.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

Viking Mars Program (U.S.)

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Henry W. Norris was the Viking Orbiter manager; Kermit S. Watkins, deputy manager; Allen E. Wolfe, spacecraft system manager; and Dr. Conway W. Snyder, Viking Orbiter scientist. Norris was JPL's spacecraft system manager for the Mariner Mars l969 Project. He was named to the Viking position after the successful launch of Mariner VI last February and Mariner VII in March. (from JPL Press Release dated April 17, 1969 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/60s/release_1969_0512.html accessed...

Gray, Donald L.

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