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1971 NASA Highlights: Aeronautics and Space Report 1971 Mariner 9, YF-12, Apollo 14 15, Skylab...
more at scitech.quickfound.net "Includes Mariner orbit of Mars, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, Orbiting Solar Observatory, small scientific satellite, sounding rockets, Stratoscope 11, earth resources, aeronautics, jet noise abatement, airport runway safety, Apollo 14 and 15, and Skylab." Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization. en.wikipedia.org Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars #39;71 / Mariner-I) is a NASA space orbiter that helped in 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 mdash; only narrowly beating Soviet 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... en.wikipedia.org The Lockheed YF-12 was an American prototype interceptor aircraft, which the United States Air Force evaluated as a development of the highly-secret Lockheed A-12 that also spawned the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird... During flight tests the YF-12As set a speed record of 2070.101 mph (3331.505 km/h ...From:webdev17Views:1 0ratingsTime:14:38More inScience Technology

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1971 NASA Highlights: Aeronautics and Space Report 1971 Mariner 9, YF-12, Apollo 14