Spacecraft to Orbit Mars Next Week

[David Morris]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Mars-Odyssey.html

October 19, 2001

Spacecraft to Orbit Mars Next Week
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The 2001 Mars Odyssey appears to be on target for a
rendezvous with the Red Planet in a mission that officials hope will help
erase the stigma of NASA's disastrous Mars failures of 1999.

The 7-foot-long spacecraft has 2 million more miles to go before it fires
its main engine to orbit Mars on Tuesday, but so far its navigation has been
``flawless,'' said Bob Mase, Odyssey's lead navigator.

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