DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Mars orbiter
State: Successful
Place: Mars
Operator: NASA / JPL
Date
Start:
Duration: 1 year, 4 months, 27 days
Mission Ending
Disposal: Decommissioned
Deactivated: October 27, 1972 (1972-10-28)
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D
Kind: NASA / JPL
Manufacturer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mass: 997.9 kilograms (2,200 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-36B
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Areocentric
1º Orbit: Mars
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was an unmanned NASA space probe that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and reached the planet on November 14 of the same year, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet – only narrowly beating the Soviets' Mars 2 and Mars 3, which both arrived within a month. After months of dust storms it managed to send back clear pictures of the surface. Mariner 9 returned 7329 images over the course of its mission, which concluded in October 1972.
