The Viking 1 Lander and Orbiter were launched from a Titan IIIE-Centaur and traveled towards Mars. They separated when they…
The first international partnership in space was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. An American Apollo spacecraft docked with the Russian Soyuz…
Feb. 10, 1975 – The Soviet and American crews for the July Apollo Soyuz Test Project addressed personnel assembled in…
The solar panels of Symphonie-A, a Franco-German communications satellite to be launched aboard a Delta rocket in December, undergo checkout…
Symphonie-A, a Franco-German communications satellite scheduled for launch no earlier than Dec. 17, was uncrated at Cape Canaveral Air Force…
With the success of the Mariner program, NASA’s Langley Research Center was assigned to manage a new program, Viking, which…
After the two networks were consolidated into the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network, the Network Testing and Training Facility (NTTF)…
NASA realized two general trends with the networks during this time period:• The ground stations with Manned Space Flight Network…
Mariner 10, the first mission to use X- and S- bands launched and traveled towards Venus and Mercury. The three…
The Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP-8 or Explorer 50) mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to observe interplanetary and magnetotail studies…