[meteorite-list] Re: NASA'S 2001 MARS ODYSSEY SPACECRAFT POISED TO ARRIVE AT MARS

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:48:12 2004
Message-ID: <200110182311.QAA19419_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>After traveling 200 days and logging more than 460
>million kilometers (about 285 million miles), NASA's 2001
>Mars Odyssey spacecraft will fire its main engine for the
>only time Oct. 23 and put itself into orbit around the Red Planet.

I'm creating some animations for the orbit insertion. They'll be
placed on the Mars Odyssey home page, and I'll let you know when they
are ready.

Ron Baalke
Received on Thu 18 Oct 2001 07:11:17 PM PDT