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Topic: The 10 greatest space probes ever flown
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-10-2007 03:18 PM
   
From the New Scientist Space Blog's David Shiga:
The 10 greatest space probes ever flown quote:
Dozens of spacecraft have been sent on interplanetary missions since the 1962 launch of the Mariner 2 mission to Venus, the first spacecraft to visit another planet. But some have made more of an impact - on science and the public imagination - than others.Here is a list of what I consider to be the 10 greatest missions sent beyond the Earth-Moon system, in order of decreasing importance. I've somewhat arbitrarily excluded Sun-observing missions, and except where otherwise noted, all are NASA missions.
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 11-11-2007 12:24 AM
Couldn't agree more with the first two: those are the ones I would have picked too, if only because they made the front pages of newspapers and got me interested in space (especially the Vikings, which are my first space-related memory!).Chris. |
Jay Chladek
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From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 11-11-2007 12:50 AM
Indeed the first two are the proper ones. I would have made a few minor changes down the list, but I am glad Venera got a mention. The Soviets took the "try try again" mentality to an extreme level with their Venus probes and it was pretty cool that they came up with a brute force probe that could take pictures of the Venusian surface (before getting destroyed). Of the ones not mentioned, I would put the ESA Giotto probe on the list for its attempt to penetrate the coma of Halleys Comet. It wasn't entirely successful, but we did collect a lot of data on comets from it. |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-11-2007 03:56 AM
Mars-related: Mariner 9 + Viking + MEROuter-planets: Pioneers + Voyagers + New Horizons  | |
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