United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Magellan Project records, 1978-1993.
The records in this collection were assembled from 8 Archive collections/accessions and 6 shipments. It gathers together records created and collected by personnel in the Magellan Project and includes records from earlier Venus missions including Venus Radar Mapper (VRM) and Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR) which eventually became the Magellan mission. Records include IOMs and other correspondence, presentations, reports, reviews, photographs, press kits, schedules, newsletters, brochures and handwritten notes.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union sent orbiters to Venus that used imaging radar to pierce the veil of the swirling clouds and map the planet's surface. Magellan, a NASA project, was created as a follow-on to those missions, dramatically improving on their mapping resolution. Carried into Earth orbit in the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis in a launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 4, 1989, Magellan was propelled toward Venus by a solid- fuel motor called an Inertial Upper Stage. After a 15-month trip, Magellan went into orbit around Venus on August 10, 1990. Over the next four years it mapped 99 percent of the surface of Venus.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) fast
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Magellan (Spacecraft)
Brochures. aat
Correspondence. aat
Newsletters. aat
Photographs. aat
Presentations (communicative events). aat
Press releases. aat
Reports. aat
AIP-ICOS
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archives. JPL Archive, MS 111-113, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA